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FABIAN, John 1799-1837 FABIAN, John 1819-1878 FABIAN, Samuel 1829-1905 |
John Fabian. Master builder, born in Portsea, Hampshire. He was paid £48 13s 2d from the Brighton Commissioners' Watering Account for carpenters' work in first half 18331. He died in Hurstpierpoint and bequeathed his business at 5 Western Street (c1822-1837) to his nephew, John Fabian. John Fabian. Master builder, born in Portsea, Hampshire. Inherited the building business of his uncle, John Fabian. Employed 115 men in 1851, 128 men in 1861, retired by 1871 and was called 'Gentleman' in probate record. Left under £1,500. Away from Brighton he built St Wilfrid's Church, Haywards Heath for (G F Bodley, 1863-1865) Samuel Fabian. Builder, born in Kingston, Hampshire, brother of John Fabian (the younger). Carpenter, employing 5 men (1881). In 1891-1893 he was living with his son James (1850-1926), also a carpenter, at 34 Waldegrave Road. |
WORK (John Snr) • Triumphal Arch erected in honour of the arrival of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in Brighton (4 October 1837) WORK (John Jr) • Brighton Savings Bank, 30 New Road (1850) • 6,7 St Catherine's Terrace, Kingsway (1851) • Patcham National School, London Road (1853) [now Patcham House School] • Oddfellows Hall, 118 Queen's Road (1854) • St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean (restoration work, 1855-56) • groyne (1858) • Warren Farm Industrial Schools, Warren Road (1859) • Wagner Almshouses, Lewes Road (1859) • Church of St Mary Magdalene, Bread Street (1862) • 6 shops in Bedford Street (1862) • lodge at Sylvan Villa, Upper Lewes Road (1862) • St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (1861-1862) • St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Upper North Street (1863) • tunnel from Hobden's Baths, Artillery Street to the beach (1865) • 80,82,84,86 Ditchling Rise (1877) • 104,106,108,110 Ditchling Rise (1878) WORK (Samuel) • 1,3,13-31 (odd) Beaconsfield Villas (1882) • 32,34,36,38 Rugby Road (1894) • 6 houses in Highdown Road (1896) • 4 semi-detached houses in Highdown Road, south side (1897) • 6 semi-detached villas in Highdown Road, south side (1898) • 3 houses in Highdown Road, south side (1899) PERSONAL (John Jr) • 5 Western Street [premises 1837-1848] • 20 Bedford Place [premises 1848] • 12 Western Street [premises as builder and slate merchant, 1845] • 6 Clarence Square [residence 1850-1878] PERSONAL (Samuel) • 106 Western Road, Brighton [lodging 1851] • 5 Temple Street [residence 1862-1882)] • 120 Ditchling Rise [residence 1883-1884] 1Brighton Herald 1833-10-26: 1e |
FARMER, William 1823-1879 |
Partner in Farmer & Brindley. | See Farmer & Brindley |
Farmer & Brindley | Partnership of William Farmer and William Brindley that produced architectural sculpture, notably for G G Scott churches. | WORK • St Anne's Church, Burlington Street (carving) |
FARR, Arthur Richard 1829-1918 |
Architect and surveyor, born in Baldock, Hertfordshire, son of a carpenter, in which trade he began, becoming a builder employing eight men and four boys by 1861. Came to Brighton in the 1860s, lived at 4 Arundel Street, described as retired builder (1871) but as architect and surveyor by 1878. Notably active in Hove/Aldrington. At 152 North Street (1875-1881), 7 Station Road, Hove (1887-1901). | WORK • 4 houses in Goldstone Road (1876) • [25-37 (odd)?], 34,36 Clarendon Villas (1876) • Colonnade Hotel, 95 Queens's Road (1877) • 53,54 Livingstone Road (1877) • 42,44,46,48 Clarendon Villas (1877) • Moulders' Arms PH, North Road (1878) • 47-49 Southover Street (1879) • 32-42 (even) Queen's Park Road (1882) • 24 Middle Street (rebuilding, 1883) • 68, 70 Queen's Park Road (1884) • 2 houses in Centurion Road (1887) • 49-59 (odd) Westbourne Street (1887) • 127 Albion Hill (shop & house, 1888) • 9 Port Hall Street (with stable, coach house, 1888-1889) • 128-148 (even) Westbourne Street (1890) • 79 Montgomery Street (1890) • house in St Leonard's Road • 75,77 Clarendon Villas Road [now Portland Road] (1890) • 92-128 (even) Montgomery Street (1891) • 33-39 (odd) Rutland Road (1891) • 99-127 (odd) Wordsworth Street (1892) • 79-119 (odd) Clarendon Villas Road [now Portland Road] (1892) • 14,15 Boundary Road (1892) • house/shop in Station Road (1899) • 3 houses at corner of New Church Road/Station Road (1900) PERSONAL • 35 Buckingham Road [residence 1875-1881] • 6 Leicester Villas [residence in retirement 1911] |
FARROW, Frederick Richard 1856-1918 |
Architect and surveyor. Born in Marylebone, London. At 6 Evelyn Terrace (1899); back in London by 1901. FRIBA. | WORK • No work identified so far |
FAULKNER, A |
Architect. | WORK • 3 Grand Avenue • 12 Grand Avenue |
FAULKNER, Charles Joseph 1833-1892 |
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WORK • St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (painted ceiling) |
FELCE, David |
Architect; member of the Stanley Roth, Tetley & Felce partnership from 1948 to 1960 at 60 West Street, when the name was changed to Felce & Guy. The practice moved to 73 Holland Road by 1973. | WORK • 8 Highview Avenue (addition, 1968) PERSONAL • 27 Withdean Road [residence 1964] |
FELBUSCH, Hans Nathan 1898-1998 |
Jewish-born artist who came to Britain in 1935 when his works were declared degenerate by the Nazis. Converted to Christianity and, supported initially by the Bishop of Chichester, was commissioned to make church paintings alongside more commercial work. His ecclesiastical work for 30 Anglican churches is regarded by the Tate as 'probably the largest body of work in his particular métier by any artist in the history of the Church of England'. | WORK • St Wilfrid's Church, Elm Grove (painting) |
FERGUSON, George |
Developer of the Ladies Mile estate. | WORK • Ladies Mile estate. |
FERREY, Benjamin FSA 1810-1880 |
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WORK • St Anne's Church, Burlington Street (1862) |
Field, W A & B | Builders at 20 Preston Street and 20 Church Road (1885). | WORK • French Protestant Church, Queensbury Mews (1887) [now residence] |
Field & Nash | Architectural practice at 164 Church Road (1912). | WORK • No work identified so far |
FIELDER, John 1835-1922 |
Master builder, based in Chichester (1871), employing 55 men (1881). Listed as photographer (1891-1901). Retired builder (1911). | WORK • Bristol Road Methodist Church, Montague Place (1873) |
FITCHEW, George Frederick 1856-1925 |
Architect and surveyor at 75-76 North Street (1899). Probably joined the firm of George Burstow and Sons at 16 Gloucester Place (1901); architect and surveyor's assistant (1911). Died in Bournemouth. | WORK • 41 Robertson Road (1896) • 48 Stanford Avenue (stables, 1896) • 50,52, 68,70 Stanford Avenue (1897) • 167,169 Ditchling Road (1897) • 75,77 Beaconsfield Villas (1898) • 47,49 Southdown Avenue (1899) • 16-17 Meeting House Lane (shop, 1899) • 185-191 (odd) Ditchling Road (1899) • 62 Beaconsfield Villas (stables, 1899) • house in Totland Road (1909) • 2 houses in Queen's Park Rise (1912) PERSONAL • 1 (old numbering) Dyke Road [childhood home] • 84 Havelock Road [residence 1889-1891] • 66 Lowther Road [residence 1911] |
Fitzroy Robinson Miller Bourne & Partners | Architects. | WORK • 1 Grand Avenue* (remodelling 1981) |
FORD, Hugh Hubbard 1906-1980 |
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WORK • First men's hall of residence, University of Sussex (1963-64) |
FORSYTH, James 1827-1910 |
![]() Image: Portrait by John Dudley Forsyth [theforsythbrothers.com] |
WORK • St Saviour's Church, Ditchling Road (reredos, originally for Chichester Cathedral) |
FRAMPTON, Sir George James 1860-1928 |
![]() Image: Photographc portrait by Bassano Ltd (1921) [National Porrait Gallery] |
WORK • Hove War Memorial, Grand Avenue [sculpture] |
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