Lanchester & Rickards originated as Lanchester Stewart & Rickards an architectural partnership formed in London, England in 1896 by Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863-1953), Edwin Alfred Rickards (1872-1920), and James S. Stewart (1866-1904). Following the death of Stewart in 1904 the firm was renamed Lanchester & Rickards,
After the death of Rickards in 1920, Lanchester joined forces with the London practice Lucas & Lodge, established by Thomas Geoffry Lucas (1872-1947) and Thomas Arthur Lodge (1888-1967), to form Lanchester, Lucas & Lodge in London
Architectural projects by Lanchester & Rickards included Cardiff City Hall and Law Courts, Cardiff (1897-1906); Flats, Handel Street, Bloomsbury, London (1898); Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road, Lewisham, London (1902-04); Hull School of Art, Anlaby Road, Hull, Yorkshire (1902-04); The Wesleyan Central Convocation Hall, London (1905-11); Public fountain and Edward VII Memorial, Bristol (1907-13); Third Church of Christ Scientist, Curzon Street, London (1910–13); Knoedler's, 14 Old Bond Street, Mayfair, London; Colnaghi's Art Gallery, 144–147 New Bond Street, London (1911-13)
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Reilly, C. H. Representative British Architects of the Present Day. London: B. T. Batsford, 1931
‘Cardiff City Hall and Law Courts’ [Architects: Lanchester & Rickards] Architectural Review vol. 20, 1906 pp. 233-264
'The Wesleyan [afterwards Central] Hall, Westminster: working drawings’[Architects: Lanchester & Rickards] Architectural Review vol. 21, 1907 pp. 257-267
'The Wesleyan [afterwards Central] Hall’[Architects: Lanchester & Rickards] Architectural Review vol. 32, November 1912 pp. 261-289.