Edward Holmes (architect)

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Nationality British Died 1909 Role Architect		Name Edward Holmes Occupation Architect

Buildings St Mary's Church, Selly Oak Structures St Mary's Church, Selly Oak

Edward Holmes (1832 – 1909) was an architect from Birmingham, England.

Family

He was the son of Edward Holmes and Elisa Henrietta Roulet, christened on 7 September 1832 in St. Mary's Church, Moseley.

He married Mary Ann Briggs on 7 October 1856 at St Mary's Church, Moseley. Mary Ann was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Briggs. There were two children.

There is a brass plaque in St. Mary's Church, Selly Oak to the memory of Mary Ann Holmes aged 31 years, wife of Edward Holmes (Architect of this Church) who died 5 November 1861 and is buried in the Family Vault at St. Mary's Church, Moseley.

Holmes married Mary Lavinia Hemming on 27 May 1863 in Alvechurch.

He died at the end of 1909.

Buildings designed

Lodge and twin mortuary chapels, Belper Cemetery. 1858

All Saints' Church, King's Heath with Frederick Preedy, 1860

St. Mary's Church, Selly Oak. 1861

Moseley Independent Congregational chapel. 1862

St. James' Church, Shirley. New roof. 1862.

Exchange Building, 1865. Enlarged 1877. Demolished 1965.

Immanuel Church, Broad Street, Birmingham. 1865

Former Masonic Hall, Ethel Street, Birmingham, 1865-69

Midland Bank, New Street, Birmingham. 1867-69 (now Waterstones bookshop)

Former Medical Mission, River Street, Birmingham, 1880

Lady Chapel addition to St. Paul's Church, Moseley Road, Balsall Heath. 1865.

Freemasons' Hall, Grand Lodge of Ireland, Molesworth Street, Dublin. 1866.

St John The Divine, Horninglow, Burton upon Trent. 1867

Kings Norton Workhouse. 1870

St Paul's Church, Dosthill. 1872

George Wilkinson and Co, Ashted Steam Brewery, Ashted Row, Birmingham. 1874

37 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Date unknown.

Chadwick Manor, Balsall, Solihull

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