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KAYE, James
1810-1870?
Architect, surveyor, land and estate agent.
      Born in Bombay (Mumbai), son of an accountant in the Indian civil service. Agent for the Globe Fire and Life Assurance Company, National Alliance Accidental and Plate Glass Insurance Company and the Conservative Land Society.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
6 Lansdowne Square [practice 1851-54]
37 Western Road, Hove [practice 1856-1858]
KELLY, John
1840-1904
KELLY, Claude
1875-
John Kelly. Architect.
      Designed a number of Roman Catholic churches in Italianate style, distinguished by tall campaniles. Father of Claude Kelly.
Claude Kelly. Architect.
      Born in Leeds, son of John Kelly, whose practice he took over in 1904. Master of design at the Architectural Association.
WORK (John)
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Tamworth Road (1902, now church hall)
WORK (Claude)
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Tamworth Road (1915)
KELSALL, John Scott FRIBA
1900-1970
Architect.
      Son of a steam trawler manager in Lancashire and London, who retired to Hove. RIBA Soane Medallist 1924. FRIBA 1931. Lived at Woodmancote, died at Cardigan, Pembrokeshire.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
12 Grand Avenue [residence,. practice]
KEMPE, Charles Eamer
1837-1907
Also spelt Kemp
C E KempeDesigner.
      Leading Victorian stained glass designer. Youngest son of Nathaniel Kemp and cousin of Thomas Read Kemp and maternal grandson of Sir John Eamer, Lord Mayor of London in 1801. Born at Ovingdean Hall. After considering priesthood in the Anglo-Catholic movement while at Oxford, he studied architecture in the practice of G F Bodley and founded his own studio in 1866. He had a residence at Old Place, Willingdon and died at his London house, 28 Nottingham Place, but is buried at St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean. He left £62,802 5s 5d.
WORK
All Souls Church, Eastern Road (glass 1903, 1906)
Church of St Alban, Coombe Road (altar>
Church of St Nicholas of Myra, Dyke Road (glass, painted decoration, restored screen)>
St Augustine's Church, Stanford Avenue (glass)
St Luke's Church, Queen's Park Road (glass)
St Paul's Church, West Street (glass)
St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (glass)
St Peter's Church, Holmes Avenue (glass)
Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Mary Magdalene, Bread Street (glass, 1862)
St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (lectern)
St Philip's Church, New Church Road, Hove (glass)
St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean (rood, reredos, decoration)

PERSONAL
Ovingdean Hall [birthplace 1837]
Kempe & Co Glass designers.
      Company formed in 1907 with four partners after C E Kempe's death. It closed in 1934.
WORK
St Augustine's Church, Stanford Avenue (glass)
St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (glass)
St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (glass)
St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (glass)
KENDALL, Henry Edward
1776-1875
KENDALL, Henry Edward Jr
1805-1885
Henry Edward KendallHenry Edward Kendall [right]. Architect and surveyor.
      He was a pupil of Thomas Leverton and probably John Nash. Surveyor of much of the Kemp Town Estate. His pupils included Lewis Cubitt, who married Kendall's daughter Sophia.
Image: lithographic portrait by George B Black, 1852 [National Portrait Gallery]
Henry Edward Kendall Jr. Architect.
      Pupil of his father, with whom he worked until establishing his own architectural practice. Both were founders of the future RIBA. Among other buildings away from Brighton & Hove he designed the County Lunatic Asylum near Haywards Heath.
WORK (Henry Snr)
Kemp Town Enclosures
WORK (Henry Jr)
St Patrick's Church Cambridge Road (1858)
Esplanade Cottages, The Esplanade
KENNARD, John Moir
1856-1950
Architect.
      Originally in Reigate and later in Brighton. Son of a sand and horticultural soil dealer in Southwark. In practice by 1881. ARIBA 1884.
WORK
• house in Princes Terrace (1914)

PERSONAL
Redfern, Tivoli Crescent North [practice]
KENNINGTON, Eric Henri RA
1888-1960
Painter and monumental sculptor.
      Noted for the effigy on T E Lawrence's tomb in St Paul's Cathedral; war artist in both world wars.
WORK
St Helen's Church, Hangleton Way (tombstone)
KINDER, Claude
1897-1949
Glass designer.
      Member of the local firm of Barton, Kinder and Alderson. Trained with Cox and Barnard.
WORK
Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road (glass)
KINGSTON(E), Richard
1777?-1846?
Surveyor. WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
32 Gardner Street [1824-43]
KNIGHT, Charles Ernest
1901-1990
Painter and designer.
      Born in Hove, he trained as a landscape artists at Brighton School of Art and the RA Schools, where he was a pupil of L J Ginnett and Walter Sickert. He lived in Ditchling and taught at Brighton College of Art and was tutor to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. He designed stained glass and, probably with J L Denman, inn signs.
WORK
Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road (glass, statue)
St Matthias' Church, Ditchling Road (glass)
St Patrick's Church Cambridge Road (paintings)
KNIGHT, F B
Architect.
      Surveyor of the Goldsmid estate.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PERSONAL
Estate office, 8 Palmeira Mansions [1884-1886]
KNOWLES, Sir James Thomas KCVO
1831-1908
Architect and writer.
      Son of architect James Thomas Knowles (1806-1884). He designed many buildings in the Stanford estate. He founded the Metaphysical Society in 1869, was editor of The Contemporary Review and founder of the journal Nineteenth Century in 1877. Knighted 1904. Lived at Queen Anne's Lodge, St James Park Road, Westminster and in Brighton, where he died, leaving over £30,000.
WORK
1 Grand Avenue (1871-74, now King's House)
Prince's Hotel, Kingsway

PERSONAL
3-4 Percival Terrace [residence, deathplace 1908]
KNOX, James Erskine
1841-1918
Woodworker.
      He had workshops in London; employed by George Somers Clarke. Member of the Art Workers Guild.
WORK
Church of St Martin and St Wilfrid Church, Lewes Road (reredos and fittings, 1875)
     

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