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Harris, E(mmanuel) Vincent
(b Devonport, 1876; d Bath, 1 Aug 1971). English architect. He was articled to James Harvey in Plymouth, later studying at the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal Academy evening school in London. From 1901 to 1908 he worked for the London County Council and his hand may be seen in a series of simple, monumental electricity sub-stations for tramways, the grandest being in Upper Street, Islington (1905). He established his own office when, in partnership with Thomas Anderson Moodie (1875–1948), he won the competition for Glamorgan County Hall (1908), Cardiff, with a design that was a fine example of the growing Beaux-Arts influence in English classicism. Harris and Moodie also designed a fine Lutyens-inspired fire station in Cardiff (1912; destr.; see Reilly). The same simple Italianate style was used for the brick front of 2–3 Duke Street, St James’s, London (1910). In 1914 Harris won the competition for the Board of Trade building, Whitehall, which was only completed to his altered design in 1961.
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