Charles Lovett Gill was born in Farringdon, Wales in 1880 and was articled to Edward George Warren in Exeter, Devon from 1896 to 1900. He also attended the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1902 to 1907, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He worked as an assistant in the London County Council Architects' Department in 1900, and to Frank Thomas Verity (1864-1937) from December 1900.
Gill qualified as an architect in 1904. In c.1906, with Albert Edward Richardson (1880-1964) he formed the London-based architectural partnership Richardson & Gill. The partnership was dissolved in 1939.
Gill was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1905 and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1915. He was an Ashpitel Prizeman in 1904 and was awarded the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal in 1931.
Gill's address was given as 18 Denning Road, Hampstead, Middlesex [now London] in 1911. He died in Odiham, Hampshire on 26 March 1960.
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Public Schools Club, 19, Berkeley Street, W.; New Theatre, Quay Street, Manchester; Southampton Hall, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, W.C.; Moorgate Hall, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.; house for Gen. Sir Bruce Mead Hamilton, at Sunningdale ; restoration of "Tor Royal", Princetown, Devon (for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales); the facade of the Regent Street Polytechnlc; numerous commercial buildings In Moorgate Street, and other parts of the City, etc., etc. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
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Works:
In partnership with A. E. Richardson, F.R.I.B.A. (Messrs. Richardson and Gill, Architects to the Duchy of Cornwall and the London and Northern Estates): — St. James's Park, offices for the Underground Railway Co.; Moorgate Hall, Moorgate, E.C.; 43-53, Moorgate: 56-60, Moorgate; British Foreign and Colonial Bank, Gresham Street; new warehouse Graham Street and Wood Street; 68, Fenchurch Street; 65-68 Leadenhall Street; apartment houses, Nos. 19 and 10, Berkeley Street; New Theatre, Manchester; Offices, Fulwood Place, Holborn; offices, Hazlitt House, Southampton Buildings; Domestic Work: "Hilltop", Sunningdale; The Mansion, Leatherhead; " Warbrook", Eversley, Hants; " Goldings", Loughton; " Tor Royal", Dartmoor; " Bradninch Manor," Devon; rebuilding Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
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Marriott, Charles. Modern English Architecture. London: Chapman & Hall, 1924
Who's Who in Architecture 1914. London: Technical Journals Ltd., 1914
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1926