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1852-1934
Born in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, he trained in London, lived and practised in Accrington c1881 but was back in London by 1891. FRIBA (1892). Specialist in non-conformist churches.
• Florence Road Baptist Church (1892-1897; spire 1898)
• Gloucester Place Baptist Church (1902-1904)
† Horeb Tabernacle, Surrenden Road (1908)
1852-1933
A leading architect of domestic buildings in the Arts & Crafts idiom, working primarily in the Birmingham area. President, Birmingham Architectural Association, 1906.
• 44 Wilbury Road
1823-1897
Born in London but grew up in Preston, Lancashire. Moved to Brighton for health reasons in 1846 and was employed by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. Designed much of northern Cliftonville, including model workers' dwellings. He was chief engineer of the LB&SCR (1860-1896), for which he completed the Brighton main line and designed and project-managed the construction of Newhaven harbour (1864-70). He left Hove for London in the mid 1860s and was living in Forest Row at the time of his death, only a year after retiring.
• 42-43 Medina Villas (c1852)
• Hove Railway Station (1863, 1879)
PERSONAL
• 28 Queen's Road [1851]
• 42 Medina Villas [1854]
• 10 Ship Street [1855-59]
† Ivy Lodge, Hove [residence 1858-c1864]
Partnership of Barber and John Olliver (1895) as builders, decorators, plumbers and sanitary engineers.
• 26 Ranelagh Villas (conservatory 1898)
PREMISES
• 88 Church Road [1895]
• 54 Jubilee Street [1895]
1879-
Born in Hove, he was articled to C E Hewitt 1893-1896 and then worked as his assistant until 1898. He was then assistant to R W Pollard until moving to Maidstone in 1899.
No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 26 Connaught Terrace [family residence 1879-]
• 7 Goldstone Road [1889-1891]
Partner in Cox & Barnard.
See Cox and Barnard.
1834-1905
BARNES, George
1867-1946
Born in Chichester, son of a blacksmith and a washerwoman. In 1881 he employed 50 men and 4 boys. He left £25,616 8s 5d. His elder son, Henry J Barnes (b1865) became an architect's assistant (1891), his youngest son, Harry C Barnes (b1871) became an engineer's apprentice.
George Barnes. Builder and contractor.
Born in Brighton, son of James Barnes. He was assistant to and then joined his father in the firm.
• All Souls' Church, Eastern Road (enlargement 1879)
See also J Barnes & Son
PERSONAL
• 25 Buckingham Street [1872-1878]
• 4 Alexandra Villas [residence 1880-1905]
• 99-100 North Street [1887-1903]
• 2 Redcross Street [1904]
PERSONAL (George)
• Addison House, 2 Addison Road [residence 1901-1903] new build
• 2 Reigate Road [residence 1904-1908] new build
• Milton House, 7 Clarence Street [residence 1909-1913]
• 74 Denmark Villas [residence 1914-1917]
• The Turret, 48 Millers Road (Dyke Road Drive) [residence 1918-1928] Mrs B 1932-35
• 124 Dyke Road [residence 1939-1946]
James Barnes is joined by his son George [qqv above].
• Hove Club, 28 Fourth Avenue (1897-1898)
• Elm Grove School (1906)
• 99-100 North Street [1907-1929]
• Old Shoreham Road [1929]
1795-1860
BARRY, Charles Jr PRIBA
1823-1900
BARRY, Edward Middleton
1830-1889
Largely self-educated, he travelled across Europe 1817-1820, returning to establish a successful career. His early work on churches petered out because of his lack of sympathy with the radical liturgical changes brought on by the Oxford Movement. This was more than compensated by the commission to design the new Palace of Westminster, on which he worked with A W N Pugin.
Charles Barry Jr [below centre]. Architect.
The eldest son of Sir Charles Barry, in whose practice he trained and worked, notably on the Palace of Westminster and, in his own right, Dulwich College, in a district of London where he worked extensively. He also worked on projects with his brother Edward. He was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1876-1879.
Edward Middleton Barry [below right]. Architect.
Third son of Sir Charles Barry, whose practice he joined after training with Thomas Henry Wyatt.
Images (left to right): Sir Charles Barry portrait by John Prescott Knight [National Portrait Gallery], Image: Portrait by Lowes Cato Dickinson (1880) [RIBA Collections]; Edward Middleton Barry
• St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (1824-28)
• Queen's Park (1825)
• Holy Trinity, Ship Street (1826, attrib)
• St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street (1827-28)
• 76 Marine Parade (c1840, attrib)
• 47 Grand Parade (c1840, attrib)
RENOVATION (Charles Jr & Edward)
• St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street (1882)
WORK (Edward)
• Queen's Park Gate, West Drive
1794-1845
Architect.Member of a prominent Jewish family, Baron Basevi von Treuenberg being among his forebears, he was born in London, son of a Brunswick Town Commissioner whose nephew was Benjamin Disraeli (lord Beaconsfield, whose brother-in-law he became. A pupil of Sir John Soane from 1811, he did a three-year Grand Tour in Italy and Greece in 1816-1819. His practice was in Savile Row, London. He died when he fell through the floor while inspecting work being done on Ely Cathedral, where he is buried.
Image: bust by Mazzotti, Fitzwilliam Museum
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road (reconstruction from ruin, 1833-36)
• St Mary's Hall, Eastern Road (1836)
PERSONAL
• 37 Brunswick Square [residence 1828-1845]
1805-1868
Born in Milford, Hampshire. He held various official posts in Hove: tax collector in 1845-1854, assistant overseeer of the poor in 1848-1854, tax collector and parish clerk in 1856-1870 (and latterly undertaker). His wife ran a registering office for servants. From 1869, F Batts (presumably his son Frederick) at the Waterloo Street address was secretary to the Brighton and Shoreham Building Society and from 1872 took over as tax and rates collector and parish clerk for Hove.
No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 10 Western Road, Hove [practice, residence 1841-1851]
• 33 Waterloo Street [residence 1856-1870]
1890-1970
A prolific designer (as J Stanley Beard & Clare, with Alfred Douglas Clare) of cinemas, mostly in the London area. His only notable work in Brighton was as J Stanley Beard & Bennett with Walter Robert Francis Bennett. His wife is said to have made the first 999 telephone call that led to an arrest when living in Hampstead. He retired in 1963.
• Mitre House, 144-145 Western Road (1935)
• Palace Pier clock tower, Madeira Drive (1930)
1800-1858
Born in Nottinghamshire. He was manager of the water works and one of the first shareholders in the Brighton, Hove and Preston Constant Service Water Company when formed in 1852. He gave evidence at the inquest into the first fatal railway accident on the London-to-Brighton Line between Balcombe and Haywards Heath only 11 days after the line opened in 1841. On completon of the works, in 1857 he was appointed managing director of the company at a salary of £200 a year with a seat on the board. He was active in civic life as a magistrate, a town commissioner 1848-1854, High Constable of Brighton in 1852, a Guardian of the Poor in 1854/55 and one of the first aldermen, for St Nicholas ward, from the start of the town's charter in 1854, which he was active in obtaining, until his death. He was a member of the committee overseeing the acquisition of the Royal Pavilion in 1850. He died playing cricket while visiting friends at Woodford, Essex, and is buried in Brighton Extra-Mural Cemetery.
No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 107 North Street [1839-43]
• Norman Villa, Church Hill, now 43 Dyke Road [residence 1848-1855] new build
• 59 Clifton Road [residence 1856-1859]
1832-1895
Partner in Clayton and Bell.
No work identified so far
1911-1993
Son of Alfred Bell, from whom he took over in Clayton and Bell in 1950.
• All Saints Church, The Drive (glass)
• St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (cross, altar painting, 1874)
He joined the Burrell masonic lodge in Brighton in 1918.
• 2 Bristol Gate (1902)
PERSONAL
• 91 Waldegrave Road [residence 1916-1931]
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 5 William Street [1839]
• Synagogue, Devonshire Place (1823; only facade remains)
• Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street (2004)
1896-1959
Specialist in theatres and cinemas, notably for Paramount. He joined the London firm of Francis Thomas Verity (and married his daughter) in 1922 and became a partner as Verity and Beverley in 1930. He continued the practice after Verity's death in 1937.
† Imperial Theatre, North Street (1939-1940; later Essoldo cinema, demolished 2001)
1881-1940
Pupil of Charles Eamer Kempe.
• St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (glass)
1910-2006
Brighton borough architect, responsible for the design of most post-war schools. Born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, son of a potter.
• Patcham Junior School, Warmdene Road [1937)
• University of Brighton Faculty of Arts and Architecture, 53 Grand Parade (1967)
• Sussex Police Headquarters, John Street (1965)
• Law Courts, Edward Street (1967)
1818-1884
He attended a school in Brighton as well as London and designed a railway carriage with wheels beneath instead of at the side that was adopted by the London & Greenwich Railway, even before becoming an engineering apprentice in 1834. He went into partnership with his brother in 1845 and worked in parrticular on railways in Britain and India. His first commission for a pier was at Margate in 1853, pioneering the use of screw-piles, which was completed in 1857. in the decade from 1862 he designed 13 piers, of which the West Pier was second and most noted.
• Aquarium, Madeira Drive (1869-1876)
• West Pier, King's Road
• Cliftonville Pier, Kingsway (never built)
1931-1993
Her work included stained glass.
• St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean (reredos figures)
PERSONAL
• Longhill Road, Ovingdean [residence 1951-1975]
• Bexhill Road, Woodingdean [residence 1976-1993?]
1837-1912
Prolific, active 1864-1898. Born in Hove, baptised at the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapel, son of a draper in East Street and grandson of Hove market gardener James Bartlett, at whose house in Bartlett's Gardens, Hove, he lived in childhood. He married Catherine, daughter of farmer William Rigden. Lived in Cuckfield by 1881 and New Shoreham (1891), then returned to Cuckfield and died there. This listing is believed to be complete from planning applications.
• 10-12 Sudeley Place (1870)
• 14a Ship Street (1873)
• 12-16 (even), 27-33 (odd), 35 (shop), 43-61 (odd) Stanley Road (1874-1876)
• 2, 4 (shops), 6-22 (even), 26-36 (even), 42-66 (even) Clyde Road (1874-1876)
• 134-136 Queen's Road (1874)
• 1-15 (odd) Lorne Road (1874-1875)
• 23-53 (odd) Beaconsfield Road (1875)
• 24 Wilbury Road (1876)
• 96, 98 Goldstone Villas (1876)
• 10 stables, Cliftonville Mews (1876)
• 136 (shop), 138-142 (even) Church Road (1876)
• 58, 136 (shop) Livingstone Street (1876)
• 31-51 (odd) Selborne Road (1876-1877)
• 73, 75-80, 82, 100, 102, 108 Goldstone Road (1876, 1879)
• 14, 16, 18, 24, 30, 32, 34 42-46 (even, shops) Preston Road (1876-1877)
• 15 houses in Shaftesbury Road (1876)
• riding school, 27, 28-32 (shops) Park Crescent Terrace/Road (1876-1877)
• 153-158 Upper Lewes Road (1877)
• 8, 9, 18-21, 26, 27 Salisbury Road (1877-1878)
• 9 Wilbury Road (1877)
• 56, 58 Conway Street (1877)
• 5 Victoria Street (shop, 1877)
• 10, 62-66 (even), 80-86 (even), 100, 104-118 (even), 122-128 (even), 127-129 (odd) Ditchling Rise (1877-1880)
• 5, 7-21 (odd), 6-42 (even), 23, 25 Warleigh Road (1878-1880)
• 1-39 (odd), 8, 41-59 (odd) Vere Road (1879-1881)
• 8 houses in Upper Park Place (1879)
• 53-57 (odd), 59 (shop) Clyde Road (1879)
• 22-44 (even) Whichelo Place (1879)
• 1-7 (odd), 2, 4, 10-20 (even) Stanford Avenue (1879-1881)
• 19-42 Islingword Place (1879)
• 64 Bentham Road (shop, bakehouse, 1879)
• 7-18, 21-23, 33-38, 40, 42, 44 Islingword Street (1879-1881)
• 44-49, 60-62, 64-68 Islingword Road (1880)
• 115-125 (odd, 131, 133 Ditchling Road (1880)
• 3-12 Preston Park Avenue (1880)
• 145 Eastern Road (1880)
• 33-47 (odd), 42-48 (even) Eaton Place (1880)
• 6,8 Stanford Road (1880)
• 12 houses in Florence Road and Beaconsfield Road (1881)
• 67a Edburton Avenue (1886)
• 26 Scarborough Road (1886)
• London & Counties Bank, Castle Square (rebuilding, 1899)
PERSONAL
• 53 York Road [1870-1871]
• 68 Ship Street [1874]
• 64 Ship Street [1877-1887]
1855-1917
BLACK, Kenneth Eastty FRIBA
1897-1978
Son of the Brighton borough coroner, he was a founding partner of Clayton & Black. Constance Garnett was one of his executors.
Kenneth Black. Architect.
Son of Ernest Black. Partner in Clayton & Black. ARIBA 1923.
See Clayton & Black
PERSONAL
• 28 Lancaster Road [residence 1901]
• 4 Windlesham Road [residence 1917]
1803-1888
Born in Portsea, Hampshire, hepractised in London.
• St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (former reredos)
1889-1958
Son of the manager of a church furnishings company, he was based in Guildford 1925-1929, and Salisbury 1932-1958.
• St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (reredos)
• Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Davigdor Road (fittings)
• St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street (restoration, 1925)
1878-1969
Born at Rolvenden, Kent, son of a farmer, he was a solicitor's clerk (1901) before becoming an architect. He emigrated to Vancouver, Canada and then to the United States, where he became a naturalised citizen and died in Long Beach, California.
• 17 houses and a laundry on the north side of Payne Avenue (1901-1902)
• 4 houses on the south side of Payne Avenue (1902)
• layout of Seafront Esate (1902)
• 1-37 Linton Road (1903-1904)
PERSONAL
• 3 Pavilion Buildings [1905]
• 2 Gloucester Terrace, Seaford [residence 1905]
¶ 75 Florence Road [residence 1907]
1846-1922
Born at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, son of a cordwainer (shoe-maker) and straw bonnet maker, he grew up in Shaftesbury, Dorset, where he trained as a carpenter. He moved to Leatherhead and then to Hove by 1873. In Census1881 he was employing two men and two boys. His firm was Blandford & Sons by 1889. He was an estate agent in Pa1890-91 and in Census1891 he was also a rate collector, with his son Charles (1873-) as his clerk. [By 1897 Charles Jr was 'assistamt overseer, assessor of taxes, collector of district rate' and in 1899 at 105 Portland Road.] He built 287 houses and 26 shops in Hove and Aldrington and was a developer himself, especially in Aldrington. The listing is believed to be complete. He left £1,371 4s 6d
§ as developer and builder
• 1, 3 and 17 other houses in Ellen Street (1875, 1876)
• 1-4 Ethel Street (1876)
• 2-10 Conway Street (1876)
• 12, 14 Goldstone Street (houses with stable, 1877)
• 10 Goldstone Street and 49-49a Livingstone Road (1877)
• 52, 53, 55, 57, 67-125 (odd), 60-108 (even), 114, 127 (shops), 129 Livingstone Road (1878-1880)
• 53-83 (odd), 68-126 (even), 111-135 (odd), 132 Clarendon Road (1878-1880)
• 121 Shirley Street (1878)
• 101-139 (odd) Sackville Road (including 2 shops, 1878-1880)
• 84-88 (even), 92-102 (even) Portland Road § (1882)
• Aldrington Hotel, 90 Portland Road (1881) now The Westbourne
• 21-35 (odd) Westbourne Gardens § (1890)
• 31-35 (odd), 92-128 (even), 103-109 (odd) Montgomery Street § (1890-1891)
• 33-39 Rutland Road § (1891)
• 79-119 (odd) Portland Road § (1891)
• 5-27 (odd) Rutland Gardens § (1893)
• 122, 124 Sackville Road (1899)
• 215-221 (odd) New Church Road (1902)
PERSONAL
• 11 Sackville Road (formerly Drove Place, later renumbered 145) [residence/business 1881-1887]
• 16 Conway Street [residence/business 1888-1889]
• 11 Clarendon Villas Road [residence 1890-92]
• 79 Portland Road [1895]
• 39 Portland Road [1897]
• 8 Portland Road [residence 1901]
• 44 Portland Road [residence/business 1908]
• 81 Westbourne Gardens [residence 1915]
• 87 Pembroke Crescent [residence/business 1916-1917]
• 104 Coleridge Street [residence 1919-1922]
No work identified so far
BUSINESS
• 8 and 72 Portland Road [works 1908]
1829-1899
BLOMFIELD, Charles James
1862-1932
BLOMFIELD, Arthur Conran
1863-1935
Sir Arthur William Blomfield [right]. Architect.He designed many churches and several schools, includign the Royal College of Music and Selwyn Collece, Cambridge. Born in Fulham Palace, son of an eminent Bishop of London. He was president of the Architectural Association in 1861, proposed by George Gilbert Scott and others in 1867 as a fellow of the Royal Institite of British Architects (RIBA), of which he was vice-president in 1888, then knighted in 1889.
Charles James Blomfield. Architect.
Elder son and pupil of Sir A W Blomfield, joining as a partner with his brother A C Blomfield in 1890.
Arthur Conran Blomfield [right] Architect.Son and pupil of Sir A W Blomfield, joining him as a partner with his brother in 1890.
Image; Portrait by Fred Roe [National Portrait Gallery]
• St Luke's Church, Queen's Park Road (1881-85)
RENOVATION
• Chapel Royal, North Street (internal repairs, restructuring 1876, new exterior 1896)
• St Stephen's Church, Montpelier Place (restoration, 1889)
• St George's Church, St George's Road (attrib, 1890)
See also Sir A W Blomfield & Sons
Sir A W Blomfield and his sons A C Blomfield and C J Blomfield, the sons carrying on under this name following the death of their father in 1899.
• 8 North Street (former Barclays Bank, 1898)
• Church of St John the Evangelist, Preston Road (1900-1902)
In the practice of Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie. At the time of developing Marine Gate he owned Courtenay Gate.
• Marine Gate, Marine Drive (1933-1935)
• Courtenay Gate
Architect.Born in Mapledurham, near Reading. Trained as an engineer with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, while working on the Thames Tunnel and became superintendent of construction but then was apprenticed to architect Anthony Salvin and came to specialise in Catholic churches, influenced by A W N Pugin. He was architect to Cardinal Wiseman, the Archbishop of Westminster.
• St John the Baptist Church, Bristol Road (extended 1887, 1890)
• Church of St Mary Magdalen, Upper North Street (1861/62)
1827-1907
Architect/Born in Hull, the seventh of nine children (second son) of a physician. The family returned to Brighton in 1838. In 1846 a sister married Samuel Scott, a Brighton doctor and brother of architect George Gilbert Scott, in whose practice Bodley worked for six years. Thereafter he worked to develop a more modern form of Gothic architecture, as seen in the earlier part of St Michael and All Angels. Influenced by Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, he gave William Morris some of Morris & Co's earliest commissions but after falling out with Morris he co-founded Watts & Co, still a principal supplier of fabrics and clerical vestments. As a leading ecclesiastical architect, Bodley repudiated Gothic from 1862 onwards in favour of 14th-century English styles. FRIBA 1899. He left effects to the value of £22,265 18s 3d.
• Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Mary Magdalene, Bread Street (1862, demolished 1950)
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (1858-1862)
• St Barnabas' Church, Byron Street (reredos, 1882)
• St Paul's Church, West Street (restoration, 1865-1874; narthex and fishermen's institute, 1887)
PERSONAL
• Montpelier Road [residence c1841]
† Merton House, Furze Hill [residence c1845]
1862-1942
Born in Stoke Damerell (Demerel), Devon, seventh son of a solicitor. Educated at Radley; Oxford graduate 1883, he moved to Woburn Square, London. He was in partnership with Frank Alleyn Coles and Henry Cornwallis Rogers as Rogers, Bone & Coles at 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn until 1931, although Rogers and Coles has been replaced by Arthur Campbell Martin by then. Member of the Institute of Town Planning.
• St John's Church, Church Road (alterations, 1906-07)
1855-1907
Born in Halesworth, Suffolk, son of Benjamin William Botham. When his father died in 1877, he worked with his mother in running the New Oxford Theatre of Varieties. However, he was already an architect when his mother died in 1882 and he inherited the theatre with his brother. He was apparently in partnership with J F D Goodrich at some time. He was chairman of Keymer Parish Council and died in Hove.
• Empire Theatre of Varieties, 16-17 New Road [alterations, 1891]
• stabling at Pennant Lodge, 30 West Drive [1894]
• 1 house in and 25 Harrington Road [1895, 1898]
• 277 Eastern Road [1895]
• 1, 3, 5 White Street [1897]
† Grand Theatre, 46 North Road [alterations, 1897]
• Seven Stars PH, 27 Ship Street [rebuilding, 1897]
• pair of semi-detached villas in Highdown Road [1897]
• St James's Restaurant, 126-127 St James's Street [rebuilding, 1898 or 1901]
• pair of semi-detached villas on the west side Wilbury Villas [1905]
• 3 houses in Dyke Road [1895, 1905, 1907]
PERSONAL
• 23 Egremont Place [family residence 1861]
• 1 Pavilion Street [residence 1871]
• 56 East Street [lodging 1891]
• 44 Osmond Road [residence 1906-1907]
• Aquarium gateway, toll kiosks and clock tower, Madeira Drive (1874; the kiosks are now adjacent to the pierhead opposite)
† Strict Baptist Chapel, Mighell Street (1878, demolished 1950)
1814-1898
Born and died in Brighton. He later in life also lived at Park Knowle Mansion, Cowfold, near Horsham (1871).
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 14 Grand Parade [1843]
• 2 Percival Terrace [residence 1851]
• Belle Vue Hall, 47 Eastern Road [residence 1861]
By 1905 he was based in Cheapside, London.
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 15 Ship Street [1882]
Partnership of Henry Branch and Frederick John Rayner. The latter moved to Newhaven, where he became surveyor to the Rural District Council (1905)
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 63 Ship Street [1881]
He was a Brighton councillor for Queen's Park ward (1915-1927).
See T J Braybon & Son
PERSONAL
• 4 South Avenue [residence 1926]
• Valley Close
• Valley Drive
• Church of the Ascension, Bramber Avenue, Peacehaven (1955)
• Westdene estate
1832-1919
Architect.Partner in Farmer and Brindley. After Farmer's death he worked in marble, including work for Westminster Cathedral and G F Bodley's churches.
† St Anne's Church, Burlington Street (carvings)
1847-1922
Designer, sculptor.Born in Worcester, son of a painter and decorator. Designed the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace abd created numerous statues of Queen Victoria for sites around the country and in India.
Image: Portrait by Theodore Blake Worgman (1888) [Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums]
• Queen Victoria Memorial, Grand Avenue (1901)
1847-1881
• St Joseph Catholic Church, Elm Grove (1879-80)
1902-1979
Worked in the art deco style, specialist in cinemas.
† Granada Cinema, Portland Road [additional work, 1932]
o Cinema at junction of Hangleton Road and Applesham Avenue [1937, not built]
o Cinema in Old London Road, Patcham [1939, not built]
• Saw mills, Lewes Road (1880)
• 6 Wellington Road (1881)
PRACTICE
• 19 Prince Albert Street [1881-1882]
• 23 Sackville Road [1883-1884]
• No work identified so far
1869-1959
Born in Hampstead, London.
No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 30 Norfolk Square [1908-1959]
1821-1893
Painter.Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement but not a member. Born in Calais. One of the founders of Morris & Co.
Image: Self=portrait [Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp]
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (glass)
Brighton-born seventh child of a brewer's clerk. Committed to Holloway Sanatorium (for the insane) near Virginia Water, Surrey ('urgency') 30 June 1897 for treatment of melancholia and again in June 1899, now described as 'formerly an architect'. He was transferred to the Peckham House lunatic asylum in Camberwell in May 1902 and died there in January 1904.
• Station Hotel, 1 Hampstead Road (1891)
• Tamplin's Phoenix Brewery Offices, Phoenix Place (1892)
• Dyke Road Hotel (Dyke Tavern), Dyke Road (1895)
• Royal Sovereign, 66 Preston Street (wc and urinal, 1898)
PERSONAL
• 16 Clifton Place [childhood home]
• 106 Springfield Road [residence 1891-97]
• 12 Prince Albert Street [practice 1899]
• 93 Springfield Road [residence 1899]
1860-1927
Son of a ship owner and brewer. In practice as Johns & Buckwell 1886-1887), then in his own practice by 1888. He died in East Preston.
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Park Hill (1894) [now Park Hill Evangelical Church]
PERSONAL
• 36 Egremont Place [family resdidence and initial practice 1881-1887]
• 33 New Road [practice 1888-92]
• Union Chambers, 162a North Street [practice 1895-1918]
• 6 West Drive [residence 1901-1907]
• 16 West Drive [residence 1909-1914]
• 73 Preston Road [residence 1915-1923]
Partnership formed c1908 by T H Buckwell and Charles Bullock.
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• Royal Insurance Chambers, 162 North Street [1911-12]
1925-1995
Noted for working in glass and mosaic. Trained at the Royal College of Art.
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Stanley Avenue (glass, 1967)
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 1 Prospect Place [1824]
1870-1909
Architect.Born in Brighton, son of an auctioneer, he attended St Saviour's Middle Class School (now Ardingly College). He went to South Africa during the Second Boer War and returned to Brighton, where he formed a partnership with T H Buckwell c1908. However, he died of pneumonia the following year at Oudtshoorn, Western Cape.
• 20 houses in St Leonard's Road (1895-1897)
• 10 shops in Station Road (1895-1897)
• 19 houses on east side of Glebe Villas (1896)
• 5 houses on west side of Wilbury Gardens (1896)
• 4 houses in Sackville Gardens (1896, 1897)
• Carpenters' Arms, West Street (rebuilding 1898)
PERSONAL
• 9 St Nicholas Road [family residence 1871]
• 8 North Street [1898]
• 2 St Andrew's Road, Portlade
1879-1963
London-born son of an auctioneer, his practice was at George Street, London W1. LRIBA 1911. He left £121,474.
• 10 terraced houses in Tennis Road and Glendor Road (1912)
1827-1881
Architect.Influenced by the ideas of A W N Pugin and styles in French architecture, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose designs for church fittings and glass he used (see Edward Burne-Jones).
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (extension designed 1865, built 1893)
1912-1979
Based in Ringmer.
• St Matthias' Church, Hollingbury Park Avenue (1966-67)
1835-1908
Based in London.
• Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene, Bread Street (mosaic flooring)
1843-1891
Son of Sir George Gilbert Scott's chief assistant. Trained at Clayton & Bell. Partner in Burlison & Grylls.
See Burlison & Grylls
Partnership of John Burlison and T J Grylls.
• Church of St Mary the Virgin, St James's Street (c1879?)
• St Peter's Church, Holmes Avenue (1890)
1833-1898
Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer.For local associations see Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (glass: The Flight into Egypt)
• Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street (glass)
PERSONAL
• St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean (glass)
• Collingwood tomb, Extramural Cemetery, Lewes Road
1847-1910
BURSTOW, George Herbert
1879-1915
BURSTOW, William John
1880-1956
Born George Buster in Portslade, son of a master bricklayer and employer; the family name was changed by deed poll in 1894, by which time George was widowed, his wife Elizabeth Harriet (née Potter) having died in 1889. By 1881, when he lived at the newly-built 15 Wakefield Road, he was described as 'master building contractor employing 23 men and two boys'. He lived at 17 Preston Road (1885), which he sold c1896 to architect William Parnacott, and at 30-32 Florence Road (1897-1901) with his sons George and William—who by then had joined him in the business—and Ralph.
In January 1905 he married Alice Woodhams, who had been an undertenant at Charleston Farmhouse, Firle, which she ran as a boarding house with her sister. George Burstow was apparently a boarder there1. They went to live at The Bitterns, a house he built at Berwick, where he died on Christmas Day 1910. He left £8,055 14s 9d. His grandson, George Philip Burstow, wrote a family history among papers that are kept at The Keep2.
George Herbert Burstow [below centre]. Surveyor and land agent.
Son and partner of George Burstow as George Burstow and Sons. He lived at 107 St Leonard's Road (1911), then moved to Bognor and was described as 'architect and surveyor' at the time of his early death there.
William John Burstow [below right]. Surveyor and land agent.
Son and partner of George Burstow as George Burstow and Sons. By 1911 he was living in Worthing with a business as a road and sewer contractor but was back in Brighton as a builder after the First World War.
Images (left to right): George Burstow, George Herbert Burstow, William John Burstow.
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WORK (as George Buster)
• 23 Wakefield Road [1880]
• 31-53 (odd) Crescent Road [1881]
• 73-79 (odd) Richmond Road [1881]
• 91, 93 London Road [1882]
• Salvation Army Citadel, 1-6 Park Crescent Terrace [1883]
• Home for Dogs, 2 Robertson Road [1883] now PDSA
• 16, 18 Robertson Road [1883]
• 47a Edburton Avenue [1886]
• 28 Florence Road [1886]
• The Turret, 48 Highcroft Villas [1886]
• 79 Stanford Avenue [1886]
• 6-13 Scarborough Road [1887, 1889, 1890]
• Fairlawn, 13 Dyke Road [hotel 1887]
• 38,40 Robertson Road [laundries 1887]
• 33-39 (odd) Robertson Road [1889]
• 118-126 (even) Wordsworth Street [1890] also as developer
WORK (as George Burstow)
• six houses in Lowther Road (1898)
Probably the most prolific ever in the city's history, responsible for well over 2,600 houses in Brighton alone. The sons kept the business going following the death of their father and were beginning to be developers around 1905, which may be the point at which George retired. William was a named developer until 1932.
• Kingsley Road
PRACTICE
• 16 Gloucester Place [1901-02]
1800-1881
Architect.Tenth child (hence the name) of a property developer, trained under Sir John Soane and John Nash. A leading and prolific architect of the Regency era, responsible for several London parks and surrounding buildings, the enclosure of Buckingham Palace, the plans for Fleetwood, Folkstone,St Leonards and Tunbridge Wells.
Image: RIBA
• 1-10 Adelaide Crescent (c1830)
• Wick Estate (1830)
† Merton House, Furze Hill
† Wick Hall, Furze Hill (1840, demolished 1936)
1786-1834
Born into a family that moved in radical and artistic circles, 'one month before the wedding of his parents', as the Dictionary of National Biography notes. Attended the Royal Academy Schools and won the gold medal in 1807. The following year he published A series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses and A Collection of Designs for Modern Establishments After trying to build a business designing country houses, he spent 1817-19 in New York, returning to various jobs in England. His great opportunity came in 1822 when he was invited to Brighton by Thomas Read Kemp to form a partnership with Amon Henry Wilds as Wilds & Busby.
The partnership ended acrimoniously in 1825, leaving Busby to continue alone as architect of Brunswick Town on land owned by Rev Thomas Scutt, for which project he became manager. He was a member of the Hove Vestry (forerunner of the town council) and the Brunswick Town Commissioners. Despite being arrested for debt in 1829, in 1831 he became the High Commissioner of Hove, still espousing radical principles. In February 1833 he was declared bankrupt with debts of more than £12,500. Friends paid off the debts but Busby died intestate in September 1834. His final residence was at 1 Stanhope Place, London, where he died, but his probate gave his Hove address. He is buried at St Andrew's churchyard in Hove.
• St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Place (1824)
• 2 Lansdowne Place [residence, workplace]
• Adelaide Crescent, Brunswick Square and much more of Brunswick Town
See also Wilds and Busby
PERSONAL
• 11 Waterloo Place [residence; plqque] • Wick Road [residence, 1834]
(1804-1884)
Based in Chichester from c1833.
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road (contractor for reconstruction, 1833-35)
1814-1900
Apprenticed as a builder but trained as an architect with E L Blackburne.
• St Patrick's Church, Cambridge Road (lectern, glass, c1858)