Taylor, Gertrude Molly Justice

Gertrude Molly Justice Taylor [commonly known as Molly Taylor; also known as Molly Gerrard, G. Molly Justice Taylor; and as Mrs R. A. Gerrard] was born in Bath, Somerset, England on 9 March 1909 and was the daughter of the architect Alfred John Taylor (1878-1938). Details of her training as an architect are not known. She possibly trained with her father who in 1925 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA). By the 1930s she had joined her father's practice, Alfred J. Taylor & Partners, along with her brother, A. Rowland Taylor, and A. W. Hind.

In 1937 she married Ronald Anderson Gerrard (c.1912-1943), who was killed in action in Libya in 1943 during World War Two.


During World War Two she served as an Air Raid Warden.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1944.

Her address was given as 2 Forester Road, Bath in 1939

Molly Taylor died in 1988. Her death was registered in Bath

A biographical file on Molly Taylor is available on request at the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London

Worked in
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Works

Works by Alfred J. Taylor & Partners during the period that Molly Taylor was a partner included Killowatt House, North Road, Bath (1935-36); St. Batholomew Church, Lyncombe, Bath (1936-38); Greenbank Open air Swimming-pool, Street, Somerset (1937); Museum and shop, Wookey Hole, Somerset (1938); 5-9 Lansdown Place East, Bath (1946)

Bibliography

Pakes, Robin. Tradition and Modernity in Bath Between the Wars. M.Phil thesis, University of Bath, 2016

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