Henry James Tollit

English architect
Henry James Tollit
Born1835
Died1904
NationalityBritish
OccupationArchitect

Henry James Tollit (1835–1904)[1] was an English architect who practised in Oxford.

Tollit trained under William Wilkinson[1] (1819–1901) and was in practice by 1870.[2] He worked in partnership with Edwin Dolby in 1877–78.[3] Tollit was also the county surveyor for Oxfordshire.[1]

His son Reginald James Tollit (born 1870) became an architect and had his own practice in Cambridge.[2] "H.J. Tollit and Lee" are recorded as the firm of architects of the Morris Motors factory built in Longwall Street, Oxford in 1910[3][4] but this was six years after H.J. Tollit's death.

Works

Thame Town Hall, built in 1888
  • St Cross parish church, Oxford: organ chamber and vestry, 1876[5]
  • St Leonard's parish church, Watlington, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1877 (with Dolby)[6]
  • St Mary the Virgin parish church, Crowell, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1878 (with Dolby)[7]
  • The Eagle Steam Brewery, Park End Street, Oxford: new buildings, 1885[1]
  • Thame Town Hall, Oxfordshire, 1888[8]
  • Tower Brewery, Park End Street, Oxford: additional buildings, 1890s–1900s[9]
  • Archer, Cowley & Co's Cantay Depositories furniture warehouse, Park End Street, Oxford, 1901[10]
  • County Psychiatric Hospital, Littlemore Hospital, Oxfordshire: additional building, 1902[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Woolley 2010, p. 79.
  2. ^ a b Colvin 1997, p. 818.
  3. ^ a b Woolley 2010, pp. 94–95.
  4. ^ Tyack 1998, p. 267.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Cross (Grade I) (1369450)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  6. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 829.
  7. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 560.
  8. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 809.
  9. ^ Woolley 2010, pp. 79–82.
  10. ^ Woolley 2010, p. 91.
  11. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 689.

Sources

  • Colvin, H.M. (1997) [1954]. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 818. ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 560, 689, 809, 829. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  • Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-19-817423-3.
  • Woolley, Liz (2010). "Industrial Architecture in Oxford, 1870 to 1914". Oxoniensia. LXXV. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society: 67–96. ISSN 0308-5562.