Harry Gill (architect)
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Harry Gill LRIBA (25 January 1858 - 15 February 1925) was an architect based in
Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...
.


Career

Harry Gill was born in 1858, the son of William Gill (1824-1891) and Lydia Pinder (1825-1908). He married Elizabeth Pare (b. 1857) and they had a son Harry Percival Gill (b. 1887), also later an architect. He was a pupil articled to Henry Sulley. He then commenced business on his own. He was appointed a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1912. From 1901 to 1908 he took as his assistant his former pupil,
Joseph Warburton Joseph Warburton LRIBA MRAIC (27 July 1880 – 16 September 1944) was an 20th century architect based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire and Regina, Saskatchewan. History He was born in 1880 in Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire, the son of William Warbu ...
. He was president of the Nottingham and Derby Architectural Society for five years. He was also an antiquary and archaeologist, and published many articles in the Transactions of the
Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, generally known as the Thoroton Society, is Nottinghamshire’s principal historical and archaeological society. It was established in 1897, and takes its name from Dr Robert Thoroton who published the firs ...
. He also designed war memorials which can be found in
All Saints' Church, Nottingham All Saints' Church, Nottingham, is an Anglican church in Nottingham, England. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest. Background It ...
, Shire Hall, Nottingham, and Radcliffe and Southwell. He was responsible for a good deal of ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in the Nottingham area. He died on 15 February 1925 and left an estate valued at £13,420 17s 6d ().


Buildings

*Ripley Primitive Methodist Chapel, Derbyshire 1892 *Houses. 197-199
Station Road, Beeston Station Road, Beeston is street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from its junction with High Road, Beeston in Beeston Square to Beeston railway station. History The first part of Station Road was built in conjunction with the opening of Bee ...
1890s *Houses. 201-203
Station Road, Beeston Station Road, Beeston is street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from its junction with High Road, Beeston in Beeston Square to Beeston railway station. History The first part of Station Road was built in conjunction with the opening of Bee ...
1890s *Houses. 205-207
Station Road, Beeston Station Road, Beeston is street in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. It runs from its junction with High Road, Beeston in Beeston Square to Beeston railway station. History The first part of Station Road was built in conjunction with the opening of Bee ...
1890s *62 Redcliffe Road, Mapperley Park 1892-3 for himself. *Shop and warehouse for Henry Barker, Angel Row, Nottingham 1898-99 (converted for Nottingham Central Library 1976–77) * Hyson Green Congregational Church 1900 *Stables at Shipstone's Star Brewery between John Street and Rawson Road, Nottingham 1901Star Buildings Conservation Area. Character Appraisal and Management Plan. Nottingham City Council. March 2007 *Semi-detached houses, 205-207 Station Road, Beeston, Nottingham *Pulpit at
Holy Trinity Church, Lambley Holy Trinity Church, Lambley is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Lambley, Nottinghamshire. History The church dates from the 11th century. It was largely rebuilt around 1470 as the result of a bequest by Ralph Cromwe ...
1919 (as a war memorial)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Harry 1858 births 1925 deaths Architects from Nottingham