(1942) In 1931, Hepworth was featured in a book by architectural critic
Trystan Edwards. Published in
Zug, Switzerland, this 91-page hardback book, part of a series on the leading architects of the day, was titled
Some recent work of Philip Hepworth. It was illustrated mostly with black-and-white photographs of the buildings designed by Hepworth. The embossed clothbound cover shows the Roof Garden House in
Bickley, with the cover artwork described in 2015 by RIBA's British Architectural Library as "[an] image charged with the energetic spirit of
Art Deco". Hepworth won a major municipal architectural commission in the 1930s with his design for Walthamstow Town Hall (now known as
Waltham Forest Town Hall). Built from 1937 to 1942, this complex of buildings is also known as Walthamstow Civic Centre and the commission was awarded to Hepworth in 1932 following an architectural competition launched in 1929 by the newly created municipal
borough of Walthamstow. The building became Grade II listed on 9 March 1982. Hepworth's design of Walthamstow Town Hall (and associated buildings) was described by architectural historian
Nikolaus Pevsner in 1954 as in "the Swedish style of c.1925 which became so popular in England amongst those who were not satisfied to be imitatively Neo-Georgian nor wanted to go modern or earnest." From 1936, Hepworth lived in and restored Zoffany House in
Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, Hepworth also designed
County Hall in
Trowbridge (begun in 1938 and finished in 1940). Around the start of World War II, Hepworth designed a Roman Catholic church in Wales, paid for by the
Hon. Fflorens Roch, (wife of
Walter Roch and daughter of
Lord Treowen). This is
Our Lady of Peace (1939–40) at
Newbridge, now a Grade II*
listed building, with a large
campanile. This church was granted Grade II* listed status on 17 March 1999. ==World War II and CWGC==