Frederic Chancellor's works included private houses, municipal buildings, churches, parsonages, banks and schools.
22 Facts About Frederic Chancellor
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Frederic Chancellor held senior posts in Chelmsford Town and Essex County councils and was elected as a freeman of the city in 1917.
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Frederic Chancellor retired that year and died at his home in Chelmsford in 1918.
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Frederic Chancellor was born on 13 April 1825 in Chelsea, London.
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Frederic Chancellor was the third eldest of 11 children born to John Chancellor, a coach builder, and his wife, Rebecca Wilmott.
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Frederic Chancellor's baptism was one of the first to take place at the newly built St Luke's Church, Chelsea, on 18 May 1825.
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In 1854 Frederic Chancellor won a competition to design a new school in Felsted, which brought him to the wider attention of his peers.
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Frederic Chancellor set up his own offices in London and Chelmsford in 1860; one of his earliest clients was the London and County Bank for whom he designed properties at 32 and 34 Borough High Street, Southwark, in 1862; and 49 Broadway, Stratford, in 1867.
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Frederic Chancellor was a prolific architect; as of 2002 some 730 buildings have been attributed to him, with 570 of these being in Essex.
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Frederic Chancellor was as frequent with his ecclesiastical designs as he was with his domestic work, the latter of which include Pontlands Park, Great Baddow and the restorations of Durwards Hall, Layer Marney Tower, and Leez Priory.
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Frederic Chancellor undertook the remodelling of the house and grounds of Poulett Lodge, Twickenham, in the Italianate style, for William Punchard.
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In 1867 Frederic Chancellor designed the current building for Felsted School, including the adjoining School Master's House, in Felsted Essex.
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The Church of Holy Trinity, in Pleshey, was redesigned by Frederic Chancellor and built in 1868, with only the medieval crossing arches surviving from the earlier building.
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The Church of St John the Evangelist, Ford End, which Frederic Chancellor designed in 1870, was another to be singled out by for its picturesque qualities.
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Frederic Chancellor conducted substantial alterations and additions on the nearby Norman church, St Mary and St Lawrence, including the construction of the North aisle and vestry, rebuilding the chancel arch and south porch and some alterations to the tower.
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In 1878 Frederic Chancellor designed a new church for Creeksea, Essex.
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Historic England, who listed Frederic Chancellor's building at Grade II in 1951, noted the architect's "sensitivity" when redesigning the church and his reuse of existing materials in order to recreate the spirit of the earlier church, a sentiment shared by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner in the Essex edition of The Buildings of England.
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From 1888, Frederic Chancellor became Mayor of Chelmsford for the first time, a post to which he was elected on six further occasions until 1906.
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Frederic Chancellor held senior posts in Chelmsford Town and Essex County councils and was elected as a freeman of the city in 1917.
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Frederic Chancellor Jr became articled to his father in 1885 until 1893 when he became a partner in his father's business.
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Frederic Chancellor retired from his civic duties in November 1917 because of poor health and died at his Chelmsford home, "Bellefield", in January the following year.
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Frederic Chancellor's funeral took place at Chelmsford Cathedral on 8 February 1918 and he was interred in the neighbouring cemetery in Rectory Lane.