Background
According to census records Dolby was born in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire.
According to census records Dolby was born in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire.
By 1869 he working from 2 Bedwell Place, East Street Helen Street, Abingdon, then in Berkshire. His known works span the period 1863-1888. Dolby altered, rebuilt or restored a number of Anglican parish churches.
Many of them were in the Vale of White Horse (then part of Berkshire) and Oxfordshire, but he also rebuilt two churches in Pembrokeshire.
Drawings for one of the latter, at Castlebythe, were published in the Church Builder in 1867. In 1869-1870 he built Abingdon School, described in The Builder as "of a simple character, the local material of red brick and tile being the chief material employed, relieved by bands of Bath stone".
In 1877-1878 Dolby worked with the architect H.J. Tollit of Oxford, rebuilding the parish churches at Watlington and Crowell, both in Oxfordshire.
