Ingress Bell - Definition and Overview

Edward Ingress Bell (1834-1913) was an English architect of the late 19th and early 20th century, who worked for many years in partnership with the more well-known Sir Aston Webb.

Bell had already undertaken some modest commissions before entering into his partnership with Webb. The Victoria Law Courts in Birmingham was the first major public building they jointly undertook.

Projects

• St James’s Church, Icklingham, Suffolk (1865)
• St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Guildford (1884)
• Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham (1886 with Webb)
• Cromwell Road frontage for the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington (1891 with Webb)
• new buildings of Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex (1893-1902 with Webb)
• Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London (1893-1895 with Webb)
• Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, Hampshire (1897)
• Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth (c.1900 with Webb)
• the Imperial College of Science, South Kensington (1900-1906 with Webb)
• University of Birmingham (1900-1909 with Webb)
• King's College, Cambridge (1908 with Webb)
• Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
• Second Court (Bright’s Building), Magdalene College, Cambridge (1908-1909 with Webb)