Bellamy and Hardy

Grimsby Town Hall, Hull Corn Exchange, Bellamy and Hardy was an architectural practice in Lincoln, England, that specialised particularly in the design of public buildings and non-conformist chapels.

Pearson Bellamy had established his own architectural practice by 1845 and he entered into a partnership with James Spence Hardy in June 1853.

[3] This architectural practice were the designers of a large number of buildings in Lincolnshire and more widely within the British Isles.

[4] Pearson Bellamy completed his articles with Nicholson and then worked as an assistant to architects in Manchester and Liverpool.

[8] John Spence Hardy had also left Nicholson's practice and by 1848 he was working with the York architect Richard Hey Sharp.

[10] In 1851 Pearson Bellamy was living in Melville Street, Lincoln, but probably moved to Carholme Terrace later in that year and was recorded there in 1856.

Pearson Bellamy designed many houses in Louth, particularly near Linden Walk, Newmarket and Lee Street.

[130] Bellamy and Hardy were very involved in the suburban development on the edge of the historic core of Lincoln which took place in the second half of the 19th.

The main areas that were developed by Bellamy and Hardy were in Newland, Newland Street West, Orchard Street and lower part of Yarborourgh Road on the western side of Lincoln; houses in Sewell Road and Lindum Terrace in the north-east and St Catherine's and South Park on the southern side.

The Lincolnshire Chronicle does refer to three houses in Lower Burgess Street being built to Bellamy’s designs, but these appear to have been demolished.

These are two storey, red brick, with blue slate roofs with iron cresting, cornice gutters with modillions.

The roofs have a row of distinctive oculus dormer windows, which are borrowed from mid-19th century French Beaux-Arts architecture.

The provision of cemeteries by Town Councils which were separate from churchyards, largely came about as a result of the Burial Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict c 87).

Bellamy and Hardy developed an expertise in cemetery design and layout for which they were awarded contracts in various parts of midland England.

The vicar of Louth objected to this arrangement as he would have to step outside the chapel onto unconsecrated roadway to greet the funeral cortege.

Eventually the chapel and a surrounding area for Anglican burials was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln in December 1855.

The Jolly Brewer, Broadgate – next to Bellamy and Hardy's Office site
Boston, Lincs. Corn Exchange
The Atheneum, Boston, Lincolnshire
Town Hall, Grimsby
Grimsby Town Hall
Grimsby Corn Exchange 1862
Horncastle War Memorial Hospital -former Dispensary 1866
Museum Entrance – Hull Museum, former Corn Exchange
Hull Corn Exchange 1863
Ipswich Town Hall c. 1867–68
Leighton Buzzard Corn Exchange 1862-3
3 & 5 Guildhall Street, Lincoln, 1847-9.
Female Penitents institution, Lincoln
Cornhill shopping arcade, now Waterstones
Corn Exchange, Lincoln , Restored facade with plate glass windows 2017
Corn Exchange redevelopment showing hammerbeam roof
Midland Counties Insurance, Silver Street, Lincoln
Old Police Station and Magistrates Courts, Loughborough, Leics (Woodgate Centre) 1859
Louth Town Hall, Entrance
Louth Corn Exchange from the Illustrated London News, 7 January 1854.
Louth- The Mansion House, Louth
Market Rasen Corn Exchange
Retford Town Hall. 1866-8
St Neots Corn Exchange 1863-5
Central Market, St Helier
Central Market, St Helier
Spalding Corn Exchange 1855
No 1, Market Place, Boston, 1861
No 5 Bridge Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1864. Terracotta foliage decoration in tympana above window.
Punch House, Market Place, Horncastle 1868
Punch House, Market Place, Horncastle
189 High Street Lincoln, frontage 1853
Lincoln Co-operative Society, Silver Street 1872 and later
61 Eastgate Louth
Lincoln, Le Tall's Mill
Le Tall's Mill or Crown Mill, Lincoln 1847
Temple Buildings, 10 Monks Road 1887
The Old Rectory near Hawerby Hall ?1847
Gentleman's Residence Canwick
Dorchester Hotel, Beverley Road, Hull, 1861–1862
The Hollies Guest House – Carholme Road, Lincoln
Fairfield House Newland Lincoln
34-38 Greetwellgate, Lincoln, 1870
34 Orchard Street, Lincoln
Rear of house on Lindum Terrace, Lincoln
16 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln
Sewell Road, Lincoln
South Park, Lincoln
South Park Avenue- buildings by Pearson Bellamy
3 Welholme Road, Grimsby
Claremont House, Grimsby
Bucknall Primary School - 1855
The Old Methodist School Rosemary Lane, Lincoln, 1859
Wesleyan Day Schools, Lincoln Tower with decorative brickwork
Headmaster's House, Old Lincoln Grammar School
Grimsby – former Corporation Grammar School, 1861-3
Harby Church of England Primary School
School in 1895
St Andrew, Donington on Bain - geograph.org.uk - 430508
Cannon Street House Former Baptist Chapel and School Room.
Louth Free Methodist Chapel
Congregational Chapel, Grimshaw Street, Preston. 1857
Martin Wesleyan Chapel 1860
Victoria Chapel, Grimsby 1860
Silver Street Free Methodist Chapel, Lincoln
Leighton Buzzard Methodist Chapel in 1895
Keelby Methodist Church 1866
Former Congregational Mission Church- Newland Street West/ Gresham Street 1866-7)
Wesleyan Methodist Shapel, Swinderby
Newland Congregational Chapel, Lincoln.
Newland Congregational Chapel, Lincoln
Former Chapel, Binbrook 1877.
Spring Garden Spalding Methodist Church
Bailgate Methodist Church, Lincoln, 1879
Grove Street Methodist Church, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Louth Cemetery , Louth, Lincolnshire
Middlewich Cemetery Chapel, Cheshire 1859
Louth Cemetery Chapel 1855
London Road Cemetery Newark, 1855 by Bellamy and Hardy
Cemetery Chapel, Newark-on-Trent 1856
Cemetery Chapels Loughborough 1856-7
Middlewich Cemetery gates
Newcastle-under-Lyme cemetery chapels, 1866
Barton Cemetery 1859
Cemetery Lodge, Barton-upon-Humber
Stretford Cemetery 1885
North Ormsby Manor, probably by Bellamy and Hardy
Grove Street, Retford with former Wesleyan school
1&2 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln, c.1850
3 &4 Lindum Terrace, Lincoln, c.1850
116 &117 Monks Road Lincoln
78 South Park, Lincoln c. 1870
78 South Park. Artificial stone doorway