Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) 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 ...

Biography

He was educated at

Cranbrook School, Kent Cranbrook School (formerly Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School) is a co-educational state funded boarding and day grammar school in the market town of Cranbrook, Kent, England. Selection is made of pupils at age 11 and 13. History The school w ...

. He was articled to

Thomas Graham Jackson Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924) was one of the most distinguished British architects of his generation. He is best remembered for his work at Oxford, including the Oxford Military College at Cowl ...

in 1883; that same year Jackson had added a new chancel to Bromley Parish Church. Hellicar studied at

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. He received the Donaldson Silver Medal in 1886-87 and the Roger Smith Prize for Construction. He married Sophie Hildegarde Tate (1866–1957) at

Trent, Dorset Trent is a village and civil parish in northwest Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley northwest of Sherborne and four miles northeast of Yeovil. It was formerly in Somerset.Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) ''Collins Pocket Guide to English Par ...

on 30 August 1894. Hellicar died at Corner Cottage,

Hambledon, Surrey Hambledon is a rural scattered village in the Waverley borough of Surrey, situated south of Guildford. It is dominated by a buffer zone of fields and woodland, mostly south of the Greensand Ridge escarpment between Witley and Chiddingfold, ha ...

on 22 July 1929.

Career

Hellicar was a member of

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

from 1888 to 1928. Around 1889 he entered into a short lived partnership with Sydney Vacher at 35 Wellington Street,

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. Together they exhibited a design for a post office in Hertford at the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

in 1890.

Works

*1887-88 17 and 19 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley *1889 Valley Primary School, Shortlands *1890 Bromley Parish Church, Church Road, Bromley (repairs) *1890s Cottages and lodges at Nether and Over Compton *1891 Duchess Memorial Cross for Louisa, Duchess of Northumberland, Albury, Surrey (photos a
Albury History Society
*1892 Ralston, Bromley, Kent *1893-94 Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset (restorations) *1897 47-49 Rodway Road, Bromley *1904 Dalton Hill, Albury (dining room) (photo a
Albury History Society
*1908 Backwell Down, Backwell Hill Road, Backwell, near Bristol *1908 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent *1912 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent (extension) *1913 St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Bromley, Kent (unexecuted scheme for tower) *1919 Cottages and Club House, Raheen, Co Clare, Ireland *1925 Music Room at Ripley, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Cantebury, Kent *1925 St John's Church, Roseacre Road, Welling, Kent

Other works

*Four sketch books of buildings and construction detailingAlexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hellicar, Evelyn 1862 births 1929 deaths 19th-century English architects 20th-century English architects Alumni of University College London People educated at Cranbrook School, Kent