J. Henry Sellers

James Henry Sellers (1 November 1861 – 30 January 1954)

Broadway Garden Village, Fairfield (1914–20); with Wood; an extension of the existing Moravian Church settlement. It is in the garden suburb style, with a mix of detached, semi-detached and short terraces of orange and red brick, eventually totalling 39 houses; it includes a square named for Sellers. The architecture is predominantly traditional but with some flat roofs and a linking corner section of a concave shape similar to Royd House

War Memorial, Heaton Moor Road, Heaton, Stockport (1921); with the sculptor, John Cassidy; semicircular wall and plinth in Portland stone, on a base of sandstone flags, with a bronze statue (grade II)

War Memorial, Watchcote Park, Failsworth, Lancashire (1923); an "unusual" design with an octagonal fluted pillar, decorated with coloured tiles and capped with a bronze wreath and winged Victory figure (grade II)

References and notes

Source Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner. Cheshire. The Buildings of England (Yale University Press; 2011)

Further reading and external links Partnership in style: Edgar Wood and J. Henry Sellers. (Manchester City Art Galleries; 1978) (exhibition catalogue) G. Nixon Aldersley (1967). J. H. Sellers: designer who made no furniture. Woodworker 74 (885) John Archer. Edgar Wood and J. Henry Sellers: a decade of partnership and experiment. In Edwardian Architecture and its Origins, pp. 372–384 (Alastair Service, ed.). (The Architectural Press; 1975) Nikolaus Pevsner (1942). Nine Swallows – No Summer. The Architectural Review 91 (545): 111 James Henry Sellers buildings, Dictionary of Greater Manchester Architects, The Victorian Society James Henry Sellers items at Manchester Art Gallery