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 studied at University College London. He received the Donaldson Silver Medal in 1886-87 and the Roger Smith Prize for Construction.Obituary, The Builder, August 1929, p337
He married Sophie Hildegarde Tate (1866–1957) at Trent, Dorset on 30 August 1894.The Bromley Record; 1 October 1894, pp. 156–7
Hellicar died at Corner Cottage, Hambledon, Surrey on 22 July 1929.Kentish Times, Friday 26 July 1929
Career Hellicar was a member of Royal Institute of British Architects from 1888 to 1928. Around 1889 he entered into a short lived partnership with Sydney Vacher at 35 Wellington Street, Strand, London. Together they exhibited a design for a post office in Hertford at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1890.The Royal Academy of Arts - A complete dictoionary of contrubutors and their work from its foundation, vol. 8
Works 1887-88 17 and 19 Sundridge Avenue, BromleyThe Builder, 13 August 1887, p234 1889 Valley Primary School, ShortlandsMinutes of Bromley School Board, The Bromley Record, 1 March 1889, p36 1890 Bromley Parish Church, Church Road, Bromley (repairs)Obituary Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 21 September 1929, p772 1890s Cottages and lodges at Nether and Over ComptonNether & Over Compton, the Squire, the Architect and the Builder, Barbara Elsmore, 2005 (pamphlet) 1891 Duchess Memorial Cross for Louisa, Duchess of Northumberland, Albury, Surrey (photos at Albury History Society) 1892 Ralston, Bromley, KentThe Building News, 15 Jan. 1892 1893-94 Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset (restorations)The Builder, 24 March 1894, p236 1897 47-49 Rodway Road, BromleyBromley UDC Plans no 1967, approved 23 November 1897 1904 Dalton Hill, Albury (dining room)The Builder, 17 September 1904, p294 (photo at Albury History Society) 1908 Backwell Down, Backwell Hill Road, Backwell, near BristolThe Builder 7 November 1908, p467 1908 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, KentThe Buildings of England, West Kent and the Weald, Newman, J, 1969 1912 Carnegie Library, High Street, Bromley, Kent (extension)The Builder, 9 August 1912, p173 1913 St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Bromley, Kent (unexecuted scheme for tower)The Architect, 27 November 1914The Bromley Record, September 1913, p168 1919 Cottages and Club House, Raheen, Co Clare, IrelandThe Architects' Journal, 4 June 1919, p403 1925 Music Room at Ripley, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Cantebury, KentHistory of Ripley Arts Centre, pamphlet, Canterbury Central Library 1925 St John's Church, Roseacre Road, Welling, KentThe Buildings of England, London 2: South, Cherry and Pevsner, 1983
Other works Four sketch books of buildings and construction detailingAlexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas
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