Hicks' Apprentices
Phillip Edward Masey (Junior) c.1825, Bristol - 1897, Camberwell, Surrey
Aged 15, Masey is recorded in the 1841 Census as an architect and is known to have been apprenticed to Hicks having won two Society of Arts Silver Isis Medals in 1843 and 1844. It is unclear whether Masey remained with Hicks when he was in partnership with Gabriel but by the 1851 Census Masey was living in Wolverhampton and working as an architectural draughtsman. Masey had moved to London by the mid-1850s and established a partnership with John Norton from c.1865. Although they practiced in London, Masey still undertook work in the south-west, most notably to redesign St George's Church, Gloucestershire in 1879. The church had been rebuilt in 1846 by John Hicks and although restored in 1866, it was destroyed by fire in 1878.
Aged 15, Masey is recorded in the 1841 Census as an architect and is known to have been apprenticed to Hicks having won two Society of Arts Silver Isis Medals in 1843 and 1844. It is unclear whether Masey remained with Hicks when he was in partnership with Gabriel but by the 1851 Census Masey was living in Wolverhampton and working as an architectural draughtsman. Masey had moved to London by the mid-1850s and established a partnership with John Norton from c.1865. Although they practiced in London, Masey still undertook work in the south-west, most notably to redesign St George's Church, Gloucestershire in 1879. The church had been rebuilt in 1846 by John Hicks and although restored in 1866, it was destroyed by fire in 1878.