Bacon Warehouse and Smokery, 42 & 44–46 St. John Street, Islington, London Warehouses. No. 42 for Dillamore & Rowley, cork manufacturers, Nos 44–46 for Edward Richard Parker, provision merchant. Nos 44–46. shows the ground floor with embellishments in Portland stone, with polished granite pilasters. The upper part, faced in Bath stone. At the back was a bacon smoking warehouse.
New Warehouse, Ludgate Square, London for Messrs. Fourdrinier, Hunt and Co. 1878. Wholesale Paper Merchants.
Fairfields Primary School, Basingstoke.. Red brick with filling-in of knapped flint work characteristic of the district. Bell described the school as Queen Anne, modified to suit their special purpose. There was ample light in each classroom by means of large windows; open fires heated the infants’ department, but innovative heating in the senior school was provided by a hot water boiler supplying radiating coils.
Mawney Primary School, Mawney Road, Romford, Essex., Nicely scaled with pitched roofs, tile hanging, two-bay arched entrance. Demolished and replaced in 2017.
Children's holiday home
Passmore Edwards Holiday Home for Children, Marine Parade, Clacton on Sea. 1898. The Home later became a Convalescent Home and was demolished in 1986.
Cemetery layout and cemetery chapels
Hampstead Cemetery. Bell designed the cemetery layout, lodges and cemetery chapels for the Hampstead Cemetery. For the double cemetery chapel with a central arch surmounted by a short spire he is either copying or modifying a design which was widely used in Lincolnshire and the Midlands by the Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy.
Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, Romford, Essex opened 1888
Bermondsey Central Hall, South London Mission
Gallery of Methodist churches by Charles Bell
Work in Lincolnshire
Bell also had an office in the 1880s in Grimsby in Lincolnshire. Bell described himself as of London and Great Grimsby on his drawing of the Liberal Club in Grimsby published in The Building News, 21 November 1884. His work in Lincolnshire included:
Holme Hill School, Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Corner of Heneage Road and Wellington Street. The school was built for the Great Grimsby School Board to accommodate 1,165 children and cost £11,749. Over the entrance a central roundel bearing relief carving of the town seal with figures of Grim and Havelock the Dane, and above a stone band, inscribed “Great Grimsby Public Elementary Board School”. The School closed in 1967 and was extensively restored in 2014.
The Grimsby Fisherlads Institute. Building with a tower on a corner site. Later extended by the architect J. J. Creswell of Grimsby.
Duncombe Street Wesleyan Metthodist Chapel, Grimsby. Decorative brickwork with arched windows. Demolished in 1935 to make way for the Methodist Central Hall.
Star Lane School, Bourne. Built for the Bourne School boards. The architect was Charles Bell of 4 Union Street, London and the contractors Messrs George and William Priest of Grantham at a cost of £3,727. Single storey building with projecting wings and central projection with the armorial of the School Board above the window, and two porches on either side. Gothic pointed windows with yellow and red brick. Red brick stringing. The school is now Bourne Abbey Church of England Primary Academy.
Bourne. Corn Exchange 3 Abbey Road.. Built for the Bourne Public Hall and Corn Exchange Company Limited. the contract for the construction work went to Robert Young of Lincoln in May 1870 after his tender of £1,150 was accepted. The Corn exchange was substantially extended and re-built in 1990
