Robert Evans FRIBA (25 February 1863 – 16 August 1927) was an English architect based in Nottingham.

History

He was born on 25 February 1863, in Nottingham, the son of

Robert Evans JP The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

and Sarah Ann Mulcock. He was educated at Rugby School and then articled to the firm of Evans and Jolley, in which his father was a partner. In 1894, when William Jolley left the partnership, father and son set up in partnership as Evans and Son. After the death of his father he was in a partnership with John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt as

Evans, Clark and Woollatt Evans, Clark and Wollatt was an architectural practice based in Nottingham from the early 1920s to 1948. History The practice was established by Robert Evans, John Thomas Clark and John Woollatt by 1921. Robert Evans died in 1927, and John Thomas ...

. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1905 Robert Evans married Constance Katherine Holland, daughter of Charles Ashby Holland on 19 April 1893 at Hartshill, Staffordshire. They lived in Ravine House, Lenton Road, The Park, Nottingham and had three children: *Gwendolin Mary Evans (b. 1894) *Edith Cecily Evans (b. 1896) *Robert Holland Evans (b. 1904) He died on 16 August 1927 and left an estate of £18,425 0s. 10d.().

Works

*Pub, 36 Market Street, Nottingham 1895 with

. *Bank, Victoria Street, Nottingham 1895-97 with

. *

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1895-99 with

restoration and new vestry *Nottingham Board School, Collygate Road, 1898-99 with

. *Cross Keys public house, Fletcher Gate, Nottingham 1899 with

. *Lenton Firs, University of Nottingham 1903 with

remodelling *Imperial public house, St James’ Street, Nottingham 1903 with

. *Fox and Grapes public house, Sneinton Market 1905-06 with

(now Peggers) *46 St Mary's Gate 1907 with

*Catholic Church & presbytery, Melbourne, Derbyshire 1907-09 with

*Fairholme, Lenton Road, Nottingham 1910 with

. Extensions. *18

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, offices 1913 for F Hillam *2

, Offices for Post Office Engineers with ground floor shop. 1913-14 * St Peter's Church, Nottingham 1914 restoration *Nurses’ Home, General Hospital, Nottingham 1919-23 *Commercial Union offices, High Street, Nottingham 1922 *Ropewalk wing, General Hospital, Nottingham 1927 *James Store, Carrington Street, Nottingham *Collin’s (Firs) Maternity Hospital, Sherwood 1926-27 *Thomas Forman and Sons’ factory, Hucknall

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans 19th-century English architects 20th-century English architects Architects from Nottingham 1863 births 1927 deaths People educated at Rugby School Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects