George Bertram Carter (1 March 1896 – January 1986) was an English

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. Carter attended Blackheath School of Art between 1911 and 1915 and then the

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under

William Lethaby William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of con ...

and

Arthur Beresford Pite Arthur Beresford Pite (2 September 1861 – 27 November 1934) was a British architect known for creating Edwardian buildings in Baroque Revival, Byzantine Revival and Greek Revival styles. The early years Arthur Beresford Pite was born on 2 Se ...

between 1915 and 1917. He was a pupil in the office of

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memori ...

between 1919 and 1922 and became Hon, Treasurer of the Modern Architectural Research Group, or

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, in 1944.

Career

Carter set up in practice in

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, London in 1929. His works include: *A factory in

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for B. E. White Esq. *A factory in

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for Lessor Bros. *

Taymount Grange Forest Croft and Taymount Grange are two 1930s Art Deco–style mansion blocks situated at the top of Taymount Rise in Forest Hill, London. Forest Croft was built in 1937 to designs by Arnold Andre Higuer, on a site previously occupied by a hou ...

, Forest Hill, London (1935) *

Lichfield Court Lichfield Court, in Richmond, London, consists of two Grade II listed purpose-built blocks of flats. Designed by Bertram Carter and built in fine Streamline Moderne style, it was completed in 1935. Lichfield House Lichfield Court is built o ...

, Sheen Road,

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(1935);

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The

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reported the listing of Lichfield Court, saying: *Pipenham Hall, Little Hallingbury,

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*The Nurses' Home, St John's Hospital,

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(1938; demolished after the hospital site was sold in 1986 to be developed for housing}. *Heal's (formerly Dunn's) Furniture Shop, Market Square,

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(1954–57)

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