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Figure 73
Set of three original
gauged niches, set
into a curved wall, by
Maurice Emmett at
Hampton Court Palace,
Surrey, 1690.
this. Genealogical researcher Victor Longhorn (2004) indicates that Helder
may have been born in Hitchin in 1640, and that there had been a large
influx of refugees (including Helders) from the Netherlands to that area in
c .1584-85. Edward Helder wrote his will on 14th June 1683 and soon after-
wards he died.
That he was a master bricklayer of the highest level is beyond dispute. Wren
and many of his eminent colleagues employed him on various major projects.
Among the more notable were:
St Antholin, Watling Street (1678-82)
The Temple Bar (1672) (Returned and reconstructed on a site next to
St. Paul's Cathedral in 2004, having previously been removed in 1878
and set up at the entrance to 'Theobalds Park', near Cheshunt, in
Hertfordshire in 1888)
The Church and Almshouses, Farley (Wiltshire) (1680-82)
Christ's Church, Newgate Street (1677-87)
Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street in London ( c. 1682-84)
Of particular significance, Helder constructed his own magnificent house at
Enfield in 1675, which later became the Cowden Clarke Schoolhouse (Fig. 74).
It was on this property that Helder chose to display his supreme mastery by
building the exquisite pedimented window opening of fine gauged brickwork
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