Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 169,973 pages of information and 247,937 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Charles Hollis

From Graces Guide

Charles Hollis ( -1833)

of Fenchurch Street (1824); 48 Upper Stamford Street, Waterloo Road, London (1827).

Architect and Engineer.

1901 Exhibited designs at the Royal Academy.[1]

Architect of the new St John the Baptist Church, Windsor (a replacement building completed in 1822).

Designed All Saints Church, Poplar (consecrated on 3 July 1823).

Designed Windsor Town Bridge (Eton Bridge), built between 1822 and 1824.

Designed Bigsweir Bridge.

1827 Identified as the Engineer in the prospectus for the proposed Royal Clarence Bridge from Lambeth to Westminster. [2]

1827 Charles Hollis. Esq. Architect and Engineer, No. 43, Upper Stamford-street, Waterloo-road.[3]

1833 December. Died. 'On the 29th ult, at his. residence, Mr Charles Hollis, an architect and civil engineer, of talent and eminence as the church of All Saints, Poplar, the church of St. John the Baptist, and the bridge at Windsor, with several other public buildings testify. His liberality to those around him while living, has precluded him, thus cut off in the prime of life, from being able to leave behind means of support for an affectionate wife and numerous and deserving family who survive him.'[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. Dictionary of British Architects
  2. Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 12 December 1827
  3. Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser - Friday 21 December 1827
  4. True Sun - Thursday 05 December 1833