Edwin Hugh Shellard (usually known as E. H. Shellard) was an English architect who practised in

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, being active between 1844 and 1864. Most of his works are located in Northwest England, in what is now

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, and

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. He was mainly an ecclesiastical architect, and gained contracts to design at least 13 churches for the Church Building Commission, these churches being known as

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es. Most of his designs were in

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style, usually Early English or Decorated, but he also experimented in the

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style. He employed the

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style in his additions to St Mary's Church, Preston. The

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shows that at least 23 of his new churches are designated as

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s, four of them at Grade II*. The authors of the '' Buildings of England'' series consider that his finest work is St John's Minster in Preston, Lancashire. Shellard died 1 February 1885, aged 69.

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Citations Sources * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shellard, Edwin Hugh 1885 deaths 19th-century English architects Year of birth unknown Gothic Revival architects English ecclesiastical architects Architects from Greater Manchester

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