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be appointed by the Vestry, and applied in such manner
the Vestry with the approval of the Charity Commissicner
for England and Wales or a court of competent juridiction
shall hereafter determine, either in perpetuating and extending
the operations of the scheme or for other purposes it or for
the benefit of the said parish.
Plana were invited from the four undermentioned Architects all of whom
possess special knowledge of the requirements of Artisans Dwellings:-
Mr. H.H. Collins, 61, Old Broad Street, E.C.
Mr. H.M. Eyton, Ipswich.
Mr. E.C. Robins, 14, John Street, Adelphi.
Mr. Ernest Turner, 246, Regent Street.
No premium was offered, bat a stipulation was made that if either design
was adopted by the Vestry, the author thereof shoald be appointed
Architect at the usual rate of remaneration. Each of the Architects
named sent in a set of drawings, and the Vestry were aasisted in their
choice by Mr. John Thomas Wimperis, of 25, Sackville Street, and Mr.
D. Cubitt Nichols, of 3, Howard Street, Strand, who generously acted as
honorary professional advisers. These gentlemen reported id favour of
the design of Mr. H.H. Collins, and this report was approved by the
Special Committee appointed to consider the matter and unanimously
adopted by the Vestry. Mr. H.H. Collins was accordingly appointed
Architect, and tenders for the erection of the building upon quantities
taken out by Messrs. Gardiner, Son, and Theobald, of 110, Ureal Result
Street, were invited from seventeen firms of builders, each of whom sent
in a tender. Certain modifications were subsequently made in the
quantities, and the tender of Mr. Mark Gentry, off, Wormwood street,
in the City of London, to carry out the work on the revised quantities for
the sum of £5,573 was accepted. The land upon which the building in
to be erected is held on lease from Sir Richard Francis Sutton Part.
for the terra of 68 years from the 34th June. 1885. at a ground rent of £50
per annum; the original ground rant of £74 having been reduced was to
B.F. Sutton in consideration of the object for which the building was to
be erected. The building is designed to comprise 23 single ???
12 two room tenements, two rooms for the caretaker. and a general
washhouse and work room. The work is commenced in the hope that it
will benefit the poorer of the labourning classes in the Parish, to as ever
increasing extant, as the surplus rents admit of an extension
of the Trust.