Henry James Tollit

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[]

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. Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society. LXXV: 67–96. ISSN 0308-5562.