Healey T H

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Healey T H

Watercolour portrait of T H Healey, Architect.

from John Sowden's notebooks:

Mr Healey was the eldest son of Mr Thomas Healey that was formally a member of the firm of Mallinson and Healey, architects of Bradford and Halifax. He entered his father's office on leaving school and when in 1862 on the death of his father the partnership was dissolved, he continued the business in conjunction with his brother Mr Francis Healey. The firm held a leading position among church architects in the north of England and farther afield are to be found churches designed by them as well as restored. Messrs. Healey designed all Saints Church, Horton Green, the Parish Church extension and restoration was carried out by them and specimens of the recent work can be seen in Saint Columbus and Saint Oswald’s. Amongst other churches designed our St John's, Great Horton; St Luke's, Victor Road; Saint Michaels, City Road; Saint Barnabas’s, Heaton; Saint Bartholomew’s, Bowling and Saint Augustine’s, Otley Road.
The synagogue in Poland Street was built from their plans and they designed the Eccleshill Congregational Chapel, the new Saint Peter’s Church, Shipley, Thornton Church, Saint Luke’s Harrogate, Tockwith Church near York; Worsbrough Church, near Barnsley; Otley Congregational Church; Matlock Bank Church; Haworth Church; Steeton Church; Milton Chapel, Huddersfield; Saint Andrew’s, Yeadon and Harden Church.
Mr Healey executed several commissions for the Foster family of Queensbury, including the Victoria Hall, Queensbury; Littleborough, the residence of Colonel H.A. Foster; Egton Lodge near Whitby and the residence at Stockeld Park near Wetherby.
Mr Healey took an active part on the Bradford Philosophical Society, the Church Institute and the Bradford Library, Darley Street. He was also attached to the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society and contributed papers on Architecture to the Society.
He was a governor of the Girls’ Grammar School.
Mr Healey married a daughter of Mr Edmund Eastwood of Huddersfield. He died in 1910 leaving a widow.

Year

1908

Creator

Sowden

Image filename

sowden-265