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词条 Charles Bell (British architect)
释义

  1. Career

     Public Building  Commercial Buildings  Schools  Children's Holiday Home  Cemetery Layout and Cemetery Chapels  Methodist Churches 

  2. Gallery of Methodist Churches by Charles Bell

  3. Work in Lincolnshire

  4. References

  5. Literature

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|caption =Bermondsey Central Hall, Bermondsey Street
|nationality = British
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|birth_date = 1846
|birth_place = Grantham, Lincolnshire
|death_date = 1899
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|alma_mater =Pupil of John Giles
|practice =
|significant_buildings =Holme School, Grimsby, Kent College Canterbury and Darwen Town Hall.
|significant_projects =John Wesley Memorial Church and buildings, Epworth, Lincolnshire.
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}}Charles Bell FRIBA[1] (1846–99) was a British architect who designed buildings in the United Kingdom, including over 60 Wesleyan Methodist chapels.[2]

Career

Bell was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1846 and was educated at Grantham Grammar School.[2] He was articled to the London architect John Giles.[5] In 1870 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects and started independent practice.[3] In 1888 he was working from Dashwood House, 9 New Broad Street, London.

His works include:

Public Building

  • Over Darwen Town Hall, Lancashire (1879)[7][4]

Commercial Buildings

  • Bacon Warehouse and Smokery,42 & 44-46 St. John Street, Islington, London (1877)[5] Warehouses. No. 42 for Dillamore & Rowley, cork manufacturers, Nos 44–46 for Edward Richard Parker, provision merchant. Nos 44–46. shows the ground floor with embellishments in Portland stone, with polished granite pilasters. The upper part, faced in Bath stone. At the back was a bacon smoking warehouse.[6]
  • New Warehouse, Ludgate Square, London for Messrs. Fourdrinier, Hunt and Co. 1878. Wholesale Paper Merchants.[7]

Schools

  • Kent College (Wesleyan College), Canterbury, Kent (1885)[7] Boy's Methodist Public School.
  • Fairfields Primary School, Basingstoke.(1887). Red brick with filling-in of knapped flint work characteristic of the district. Bell described the school as Queen Anne, modified to suit their special purpose. There was ample light in each classroom by means of large windows; open fires heated the infants’ department, but innovative heating in the senior school was provided by a hot water boiler supplying radiating coils.[8]
  • Mawney Primary School, Mawney Road, Romford, Essex. (1896), Nicely scaled with pitched roofs, tile hanging, two-bay arched entrance.[9]

Children's Holiday Home

  • Passmore Edwards Holiday Home for Children, Marine Parade, Clacton on Sea. 1898.[10] The Home later became a Convalescent Home and was demolished in 1986.

Cemetery Layout and Cemetery Chapels

  • Hampstead Cemetery. Bell designed the cemetery layout, lodges and cemetery chapels for the Hampstead Cemetery. For the double cemetery chapel with a central arch surmounted by a short spire he is either copying or modifying a design which was widely used in Lincolnshire and the Midlands by the Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy.
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Methodist Churches

  • Vale Royal Methodist Church, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent (1873; closed 2015)[11]
  • Rivercourt Methodist Church, King Street, Hammersmith, London (1875)[12]
  • Roupell Park Methodist Church in Norwood Road, Lambeth (1879–80)[13]
  • St Augustine in Baring Road, Grove Park, Lewisham (1885–86)[14]
  • Southlands Methodist Church, York (1886–87)[15]
  • Twickenham Methodist Church, Twickenham, London (1880)
  • Leytonstone Methodist Church, Leytonstone, London (1880)[16]
  • Ryde Methodist Church, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1883)[17]
  • Ampthill Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bedfordshire opened 1884
  • Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, Romford, Essex opened 1888
  • Bermondsey Central Hall, South London Mission (1900: Bell's facade, which includes a Tudor gatehouse motif, was retained when the hall was rebuilt in 1968)[18]

Gallery of Methodist Churches by Charles Bell

Work in Lincolnshire

Bell also had an office in the 1880's in Grimsby in Lincolnshire. Bell describes himself as of London and Great Grimsby on his drawing of the Liberal Club in Grimsby published in The Building News, November 21, 1884.[19] His work in Lincolnshire includes

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References

1. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://archiseek.com/2009/charles-bell-1846-99/#.U5X0ULGHaU4 | title=Bell, Charles (1846–99) | work=Archiseek | date=7 June 2009 | accessdate=9 June 2014}}
2. ^1 {{cite web | url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=205917 | title=Charles Bell | work=Dictionary of Scottish Architects | accessdate=9 June 2014}}
3. ^{{cite book | title=Royal Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects: Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, vol.1 | publisher=Continuum | author=Brodie, Antonia | year=2001 | location=New York | isbn=0-8264-5513-1}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://archiseek.com/2014/1879-selected-design-for-public-market-over-darwen-lancashire/#.U5X1ZrGHaU4 | title=1879 – Selected design for Public Market, Over Darwen, Lancashire | work=Archiseek | accessdate=9 June 2014}}
5. ^1 {{National Heritage List for England |num=1419034 |desc=Bacon Smokehouse|accessdate=27 March 2016}}
6. ^Survey of London
7. ^The Building News ~ May.10th.1878
8. ^[https://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/basingstoke_provision_1870-1902_combined_2_0.pdf Victoria County History Hampshire]
9. ^Cherry B et al (2005), Buildings of England: London 5: East pg 226
10. ^The Building News, May 20, 1898
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.valeroyalmethodist.org.uk/History.html|title=History|year=2017|publisher=Vale Royal Methodist Church, Tunbridge Wells|accessdate=4 July 2017|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6riIA10Tr?url=http://www.valeroyalmethodist.org.uk/History.html|archivedate=4 July 2017|deadurl=no|df=}}
12. ^{{cite book|author=Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus |title=London 3: North West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuvCfuvUy-0C&pg=PA56|accessdate=27 March 2016|date=1 March 1991|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09652-1|page=56}}
13. ^{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus | year=1983 | location=London | page=340 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}
14. ^{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus | year=1983 | location=London | page=413 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}
15. ^{{cite news |author= |title=New Wesleyan Chapel in York |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000499/18871014/029/0006 |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=14 October 1887 |access-date=18 June 2015 }}
16. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.lhrmc.org.uk/who-we-are/a-history-of-leytonstone-high-road-methodist-church/the-history-of-leytonstone-hight-road-methodist-church-1876-to-1976/ | title=1876 to 1976 | publisher=Leytonstone Methodist Church | work=Who We Are | accessdate=27 March 2016}}
17. ^{{cite book|last1=Lloyd|first1=David W.|last2=Pevsner|first2=Nikolaus|authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner|title=The Isle of Wight|series=The Buildings of England|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-300-10733-3|page=227}}
18. ^{{cite book | title=The Buildings of England – London 2: South | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Cherry, Bridget and Pevsner, Nikolaus | year=1983 | location=London | page=601 | isbn=0-14-0710-47-7}}
19. ^Pevsner refers to Bell of Grimsby not apparently realising that he was the same architect as the London architect. ‘‘Antram’’ (1989), pg 69.
20. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=http://archiseek.com/tag/charles-bell/page/2/ | title=Charles Bell | work=Archiseek | accessdate=9 June 2014}}
21. ^[https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/time-facelift-grimsby-school-landmark-334347 Grimsby Telegraph]
22. ^Chapman P.(1993) Images of North Lincolnshie, Breedon Books, Derby,pg.20, ill.{{ISBN|1873626649}}
23. ^Chapman P.(1993) Images of North Lincolnshie, Breedon Books, Derby,pg.51, ill.{{ISBN|1873626649}}
24. ^1 2 ‘‘Antram’’ (1989), pg 272
25. ^ Lincoln City Building application no. 845. 3 Drawings.
26. ^‘‘Antram’’ (1989), pg. 681
27. ^The Building News, November 21st 1884. ,
28. ^Front Perspective published in The Architect, April 13th 1888.
29. ^‘‘Antram’’ (1989), pg 502
30. ^https://www.bournelocal.co.uk/news/looking-back-at-the-changing-face-of-the-town-s-corn-exchange-1-4929874.
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Literature

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