Philip Hepworth studied in both the UK and France, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and returned to work as an architect after serving in the First World War.
20 Facts About Philip Hepworth
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Philip Hepworth rose to prominence in the 1930s, featuring in a book by architectural critic Trystan Edwards and winning the commission in 1932 to design Walthamstow Town Hall, which was eventually completed in 1942.
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Philip Hepworth designed a handful of private houses, including Pemberley, in Loughton, 1936.
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Philip Hepworth lived in Zoffany House in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, from 1936.
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Philip Hepworth's work was said to have followed the style of that of two of his predecessors as Commission architects, Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.
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Philip Hepworth attended Highgate School from September 1902 until July 1906.
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Philip Hepworth became assistant to London-based architect Walter Frederick Cave, and after further travels in France he passed his Royal Institute of British Architects qualifying exam in 1911.
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Philip Hepworth was awarded RIBA's 1914 British School at Rome scholarship.
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Philip Hepworth produced the design for the Lloyds Bank branch in Southwark that opened in 1928.
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In 1931, Philip Hepworth was featured in a book by architectural critic Trystan Edwards.
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Philip Hepworth won a major municipal architectural commission in the 1930s with his design for Walthamstow Town Hall.
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From 1936, Philip Hepworth lived in and restored Zoffany House in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, formerly the home of the 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany.
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Philip Hepworth designed County Hall in Trowbridge.
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Around the start of World War II, Philip Hepworth designed a Roman Catholic church in Wales, paid for by the Hon.
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In World War II, as he was too old for active service, Philip Hepworth served in the Home Guard.
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In 1944, Philip Hepworth was appointed the Principal Architect for North-West Europe for the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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Philip Hepworth designed post-World War II CWGC cemeteries in Normandy, France, as well as in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
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Philip Hepworth planned the layout of his cemeteries only after intensive consultations with gardeners.
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Philip Hepworth, another Beaux-Arts man, was an architect of great speed and brilliance, a man of sensitivity and eccentricity, whose work, though careful and often witty in detail, sometimes lacked total cohesion through dint of pressures to economise.
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Philip Hepworth died in a London hospital on 21 February 1963.