Sydney Vacher (2 April 1854 – 11 January 1935) was an English architect.

Biography

Vacher was born in

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...

, the son of Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–80). He entered a partnership with

Evelyn Hellicar Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) was an English architect. Biography He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent. He was articled to Thomas Graham Jackson in 1883; that same year Jackson had added a new chancel to Bromley Parish Church. Hellicar stu ...

in the late 1880s. Their office was at 35 Wellington Street, The Strand, London. Together they won the competition to design the Valley Primary School, Shortlands, Kent in 1889. He died at

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, aged 80.

Publications

*''Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament'', London, Bernard Quaritch, 1886.

Architectural designs

*1888: 96 Plaistow Lane, Bromley *1890: Valley Primary School, Beckenham Lane, Shortlands, Kent *Measured Drawings of Westminster Abbey *Pulpit (in Memory of Thomas Brittain Vacher) in St Margaret's Church,

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, London *1890: 99 Plaistow Lane, Bromley

Work exhibited at RA

Vacher's work exhibited at the

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included:The Royal Academy of Arts - A complete distionary of contributors and their work from its foundation vol 8 *1882: West front of Cathedral, Famagusta,

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*1882: South front of Cathedra, Famagusta, Cyprus *1883: Design for an Infirmary,

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*1884: A suburban house, Elstree, Herts *1887: Design for tower and spire, All Saints,

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

*1890: Design for Post Office, Hertford (with

)

References

1854 births 1935 deaths People from Kensington 19th-century English architects Architects from London {{UK-architect-stub