Hilda Mason (architect)
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Hilda Frances Mason ARIBA (17 June 1879 - 1955) was an English architect.[1][2]
She designed, with Raymond Erith, St Andrew's church, Felixstowe, in 1929-1930, the first church to be built in England using reinforced concrete.[3][4] Since 10 February 1986, it has been a grade II* listed building.[5] It has been described as "an intermingling of late-Gothic Suffolk wool-churches ... with the reinforced-concrete-and-glass language of Perret's Notre-Dame, Le Raincy".[2] She also built a modernist home for herself, Kings Knoll, Woodbridge.[1][6]
She also painted watercolours, exhibiting with the Ipswich Art Club.[1]
She did not marry, and died in Ipswich aged 74.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Mason, Hilda Frances". Suffolk Painters. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ a b Curl, James Stevens; Wilson, Susan (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. p. 470. ISBN 9780199674985. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "St Andrew, Felixstowe". Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Celebrating Women Architects". English Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
- ^ "Church of St Andrew - A Grade II* Listed Building in Felixstowe, Suffolk". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
- ^ "6 bedroom detached house for sale". RightMove. Retrieved 14 April 2017. Includes image
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- 1879 births
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- 20th-century English architects
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- British women architects
- Architects from Ipswich
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