John Frederick Hilly
John Frederick Hilly (c.1810 – 3 September 1883) was a surveyor and architect who designed commercial buildings, churches and houses in mid-nineteenth-century Sydney, New South Wales. He was born in Warwickshire and arrived in Australia in 1839. On 8 January 1842 Hilly married Ellen Morgan at Christ Church St Laurence in Sydney. Hilly Street in Mortlake, New South Wales, is named in his honour. Works attributed to Hilly include: In 1842 Hilly designed a Victorian Gothic Revival sandstone house for the widow of Thomas Smith. The property is now part of the Ascham School campus in Edgecliff. The 1844 designed St Patrick's Catholic Church in The Rocks, Sydney, is his earliest known ecclesiastical building. In 1846 Hilly designed a two-storey stone cottage known as Percyville and that house forms most of the front of the present house is that is now Bishopscourt at Darling Point. In 1847 Hilly designed St Thomas's Anglican Church in Enfield consisting of a sanctuary, chancel, nave and vestry, surmounted by a spire on a square Norman tower. In 1852 Hilly designed a Victorian Rustic Gothic style house known as Greycliffe for members of the family of William Charles Wentworth at Vaucluse. In 1853 Hilly designed