| 28 Heron & Bellairs Architects fl. 1900s Design for a Country House, c. 1900 Pen and ink Drawn by: T Raffles Davison Inscribed: Heron & Bellairs, Architects 18 X 27 inches 29 Haydn Parke Roberts 1882-1953 A Set of 11 Designs for a Village School, c.1900 Perspective/Elevations/Sections Variety of mediums Some signed All approx. 20 X 27 inches Haydn Parke Roberts trained at Cardiff Art School; LCC Schools of Art, Regent Street and Westminster. He was articled to H Tudor Thornley, in Cardiff. In 1903, he set up his own practice in Cardiff. He was subsequently appointed to work for Glamorgan County Council and LCC. He was County architect for West Sussex from 1906-1932 for whom he was responsible for all new council schools. He then lived at Thurloe House, High Street, Worthing. Works by Haydn Parke Roberts include: High Schools for Girls, Worthing and Chichester; elementary schools at Chichester, Westbourne, Lancing, Horsham, Billinghurst; additions to Steyning, Midhurst and Horsham Grammar Schools; Worthing School of Art; Church of England Schools at Goring and Broadwater; private residences in and around Worthing. 30 Frank Matcham 1854-1928 A Set of 11 Designs for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Theatre Royal including: Dress Circle Plan, Longitudinal Section AB, Cross Section 'CD' Section 'EF', Roof Plan, Amphi Plan, Pit Plan, Basement Plan, Front Elevation, Gallery Plan, Elevation to Shakespeare Street, Upper Circle Plan, c.1900 Watercolour over pencil and ink on tracing Signed: Frank Matcham Architect 9 Warwick Court Holborn WC. 20 X 28 inches The leading theatre and music-hall architect between 1880-1912, Frank Matcham designed or improved more than a hundred places of entertainment. |
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| Frank Matcham
was born at Newton Abbot, S. Devon. His father-in-law was T Robinson, Architect and Surveyor to the Lord Chamberlain, and after his death during its construction Matcham completed the rebuilding of the Elephant and Castle Theatre after a fire in 1878 (now destroyed). Matcham's best-known works are the London Coliseum (1904, now the Coliseum and home of the English National Opera), the London Hippodrome (1900), and the Palladium (1910, now The London Palladium). He also did the Empire and Grand Theatres, Birmingham, the Opera House, Blackpool (1889), the (old) Tivoli, Strand (1891), the Grand, Blackpool (1894), the Lyric, Hammersmith (1895), and the New Metropolitan, Edgware Road, NW1 (1897, demolished), The Arcade at Leeds is also by Matcham. Matcham was architect of over 150 new theatres and remodellings of older ones and was renowned for the technical virtuosity of decoration, economy and rapidity of execution. His work on Newcastle's Theatre Royal (by John and Benjamin Green, 1837) followed a fire in 1899. He also worked on the Olympia and Empire Palace Theatres in Newcastle (both demolished) and the Empire in South Shields. |
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