[3] Aged 19, he went to Birmingham to study architecture under Joseph Lancaster Ball, and in 1885, he was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He laid out the show grounds for the A&P Society at Addington and built the office for Dalgety and Company in Cathedral Square.
[7][8] He designed Elm Tree House in Papanui Road that is registered as a Category II heritage building.
Damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, like all heritage buildings in that block of High Street, it was destroyed by arson in December 2012.
[13] England worked on extensions of Riccarton House in Riccarton,[14] St Andrew's Church (at that time located adjacent to Christchurch Hospital, but since relocated to Rangi Ruru Girls' School),[15] and St Mary's Church in Halswell.
[17] He took his younger brother Edward as his business partner, and the practice was then known as England Bros. Whilst his biography on the website of Heritage New Zealand states that the partnership commenced in 1906,[3] the Canterbury edition of The Cyclopedia of New Zealand published in 1903 already refers to "Messrs England Bros".