title: Sydney Vacher
text: # Sydney Vacher
  
  Sydney Vacher (2 April 1854 – 11 January 1935) was an English architect.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Vacher was born in Kensington, the son of Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–80). He entered a partnership with Evelyn Hellicar in the late 1880s. Their office was at 35 Wellington Street, The Strand, London. Together they won the competition to design the Valley Primary School, Shortlands, Kent in 1889.
  
  He died at Portsmouth, aged 80.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1886.
  
  ## Architectural designs
  
  * 1888: 96 Plaistow Lane, Bromley
  * 1890: Valley Primary School, Beckenham Lane, Shortlands, Kent
  * Measured Drawings of Westminster Abbey
  * Pulpit (in Memory of Thomas Brittain Vacher) in St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London
  * 1890: 99 Plaistow Lane, Bromley
  
  ### Work exhibited at RA
  
  Vacher's work exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts included:
  
  * 1882: West front of Cathedral, Famagusta, Cyprus
  * 1882: South front of Cathedra, Famagusta, Cyprus
  * 1883: Design for an Infirmary, Hastings
  * 1884: A suburban house, Elstree, Herts
  * 1887: Design for tower and spire, All Saints, Peterborough
  * 1890: Design for Post Office, Hertford (with Evelyn Hellicar)
  