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1798-1879
GARRETT, William Snr
1830-1907
GARRETT, Thomas Snr
1838-1914
GARRETT, Samuel
1844-
GARRETT, William Jr
1863-1950
GARRETT, Thomas Jr FRIBA
1864-1942
GARRETT, Burt Dale
1866-1947
GARRETT, Sidney Colston
1889-1949
William Burt Garrett (WBG).
Carpenter and builder. Described as 'gentleman' in probate record; left under £1,500.
William Garrett Snr (WG1). Carpenter (1851), builder.
Son of William Burt Garrett. Employed 25 men (1871), 50 men (1881). Retired by 1901. Father of William Garrett III.
Thomas Garrett Snr (TG1) [below left] Builder.
He was born in Brighton, second son of William Burt Garrett. He retired by 1901. His son Thomas became an architect, his sons Samuel and Burt Dale became builders. He died in a 'surgical home' at 19 Lansdowne Place, was buried in Brighton Extramural Cemetery and left £32,613 13s 6d.
Samuel Garrett. Builder.
Third son of William Burt Garrett, born in Brighton. He was a carpenter in 1871-1891.
William Garrett Jr (WG2). Builder.
Son of William Garrett Jr, he assisted his father in the business (1891); manager of building company W & J Garrett Ltd (1911).
Thomas Garrett Jr (TG2) [below centre]. Architect and surveyor.
Eldest son of Thomas Garrett, born in Brighton. Architect's pupil (1881). He later also owned 'Rite Spot', Small Dole, where he died; left £57,765 17s 2d. FRIBA 1925.
Burt Dale Garrett (BDG) [below right]. Builder.
He was born in Brighton, son of Thomas Garrett Jr. He became managing director of building company W & J Garrett Ltd (1911). Left £21,206 18s 6d. His sons Walter Joseph and Edwin Joseph became a builder and a surveyor respectively.
Sidney Colston Garrett (SCG). Architect.
The only son of and in 1911 assistant to Thomas Garrett Jr. He was a captain in the Royal Engineers during World War One. Architect at Thomas Garrett & Son. ARIBA 1918.
Images (left to right): Thomas Garrett Snr, Thomas Garrett Jr, Burt Dale Garrett.
• Dewe Road [1902]
• 43 Dyke Road Avenue [1904]
† Queen's Electric Theatre, 130 Western Road [enlargement, 1910]
• 14 Windlesham Road
PERSONAL
• 12 Nelson Street [WGB, WG1, TG1 residence 1841-51]
PERSONAL (William Burt Garrett)
• 34 Marine Parade [residence 1859-1864]
• 1 Margaret Street [residence 1865-1879]
PERSONAL (William Garrett Sr)
• 25 Margaret Street [residence 1865-1882]
PERSONAL (Thomas Garrett Sr)
• 20 Dorset Gardens [residence 1881-1907]
• 35 Grenville Place [TG1 residence 1870-1885,TG2 and BDG childhood residence 1871-1885]
• 6 St Margaret's Place [TG1, TG2, BDG residence 1889-1893]
• 2 Clarence Square [TG1 residence 1901-14]
• 19 Lansdowne Place [TG1 deathplace 1914]
PERSONAL (Samuel Garrett)
• 1 Margaret Street [residence 1871-1881]
• 75 Edward Street residence 1891]
• 36 Grenville Place residence 1901]
PERSONAL (William Garrett Jr)
• 28 Preston Street residence 1891]
• 18 Addison Road [residence 1901-02]
• 17 Ship Street [practice 1910-28]
PERSONAL (Thomas Garrett Jr)
• 30 Ship Street [practice 1890-1899]
• 20 Hanover Crescent [residence 1889-99]
• 9 Melville Road [residence 1901]
• 34 Ship Street [practice 1911-1915]
• 14 Windlesham Road [residence 1911-1915, SCG residence 1911]
• 54 Brunswick Square [residence 1939-1942]
PERSONAL (Burt Dale Garrett)
• 15 Clarence Square [residence 1911]
• 9 Woodruff Avenue [residence -1947]
• 20 Hanover Crescent [residence 1889-91]
• 3 St George's Terrace [residence 1899]
PERSONAL (Sidney Colston Garrett)
• 9 Melville Road [childhood home 1901]
• 7 Modena Road [residence 1918-1922?]
• Little Meadow, Orpen Road [residence 1938]
• 18 Fourth Avenue [residence 1949]
[Still to be determined which members of the family were involved but presumed to be William and Thomas Jr.] The list of properties are nearly all identified only as 'Garrett'.
† Throat and Ear Hospital Outpatients Department, Church Street (1924)
† Golden Cross Hotel, 175 Western Road (1926)
† Johnson Bros Store, 179-180 Western Road (1929)
• British Home Stores, 167-174 Western Road (1930-31) [now Primark]
• Marks & Spencer Store, 195-199 Western Road (1931-32)
PRACTICE
• 62 & 65 Middle Street
1852-1933
Born in Bow, London, the son of a property owner, he was active on his own account in Brighton from 1878. He moved to Bedford at the end of the century and died at Bembridge, IoW, leaving £18,569 10s.
The listing of his work in the city is believed to be complete.
• 104-112 (even) Richmond Road (1878)
• 9-27,39-53 Princes Road (1878)
• 18,20,22,24,58-76 (even) Princes Road (1879)
• 86-102 (even) Richmond Road (1879)
• 1-5 and 6 Mayo Road (1879, 1881 (even))
• 73,75,81-91 (odd) Round Hill Crescent (1880)
• 59-85 (odd) Princes Road (1880)
• 21-29 (odd) Crescent Road (1880)
• 1-9 (odd), 2-12 (even) Ashdown Road (1880)
• 5 houses in Hollingdean Road (1881)
• 49,50, house/shop and three other houses in Station Road (1881)
• 26-32 (even) Princes Road (1882)
• 2 terraced houses in Station Road (1883)
PERSONAL
• 12 St Catherine's Terrace [residence 1871-81]
• 54 Ship Street [practice 1880]
• 36 Ship Street [practice 1881]
• 36 East Street [practice 1882]
• 17 Ship Street [practice 1883-1886]
• 1 Duke Street [practice 1888-95)
1843-1932
Trained by W G Habershon and Alfred Robert Pite, he worked in the office of William Burges. He was in partnership with H N Goulty from 1867 with the practice known as Goulty & Gibbins until 1896, even though Goulty died in 1869. FRIBA 1888. He was surveyor to the Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital for 25 years from 1903. He was joined in the practice by his son Arthur E Gibbins from c1903. He died at Hurstpierpoint and was buried in Ditchling.
• Christ Church Independent Chapel, New England Road (1874) later Elim Free Church
• School of Art, 53-58 Grand Parade (1876)
• Congregational Church, Clermont Terrace (1877) now Clermont United Reformed Church
• St Luke's Prestonville, Old Shoreham Road (restored, 1882)
• French Protestant Church, Queensbury Mews (1887) now residence
• St Matthew's Vicarage, 1 College Terrace (addition, 1886)
• St Mark's Parsonage, Church Place (1887)
• 77-87 (odd) WestbourneStreet (1889)
• St Luke's Prestonville Vicarage, Old Shoreham Road (1890)
• mission house, Carlton Row (1890)
• Connaught Institute, 131 Lewes Road (1894)
• 2 houses in High Street, Rottingdean (1899)
• 37 Compton Avenue (1904)
• All Saints Church, Church Hill, Patcham (alterations, attributed)
PERSONAL
• Molesworth House, 3 Palace Place [practice 1875-1912]
• 3 Vernon Terrace [residence 1897-1903
• 43 Brunswick Road [residence 1915]
1825-1877
Based in Bloomsbury, London.
• St Patrick's Church, Cambridge Road (glass, c1858; see W Butterfield)
• Patcham Methodist Church, Ladies Mile Road [conversion, 1968]
With Cox and Barnard.
• St Philip's Church, New Church Road, Aldrington (glass, 1955)
† Our Lady of Lourdes Convent Chapel, Preston Road (1903, demolished 1972)
1882-1940
Designer, sculptor, letter cutter, typographer, printmaker.Born in Brighton, the son of a clergyman in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. His father left the sect in 1897 and moved the family to Chichester. Eric Gill moved to London in 1900 to train as an architect with W D Caroe & Company but in 1903 abandoned architecture to develop his career as a calligrapher and monumental mason.
¶ 32 Hamilton Road [birthplace 1882-1883]
• Preston View, 53 Highcroft Villas [childhood home 1890-1897]
• Cliftonville Road [residence 1884]
1867-1962
Son of a local fish merchant and a laundress. Emigrated to North America in 1910, first to Vancouver, British Columbia to continue practising as an architect with expertise in school building, leaving there in 1921 for Burlingame, California, where he became an artist. His work is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The listing is believed to be complete from planning applications.
• 16-18 Highcroft Villas [1894/85]
• 1 pair of semi-detached villas on east side of Walsingham Road [1896]
• 39-53 (odd) Preston Drove [1897]
• 2 pairs of semi-detached villas in Sackville Gardens [1897]
• 2 shops and 5 terraced houses on north side of Portland Road [1897]
• Argus printing works, Robert Street [additional storey 1898]
• 23-28, 33 Chatsworth Road [1898-1900]
• 27 Harrington Villas [1898]
• 270 Eastern Road [shop 1898]
• 6 terraced villas on north side and eight on the south side of Addison Road [1898]
• 4 houses on east side of Osmond Road [1899]
• 1 pair of semi-detached villas on west side of Sackville Gardens [1900]
• 14, 16 The Drove [1901]
• 50-60 Osmond Road [1902]
• Dewe Road [1902]
• 10 houses on north side and 6 houses on south side of Granville Road [1902]
• 8, 10 Windlesham Road [1903]
• 7 houses on north side of Lawrence Road [1905]
• 255, 257 Dyke Road [1906]
• house in Upper Drive [1906]
• bungalow on west side of Portland Villas [1909]
• detached house on east side of Glebe Villas [1909]
PERSONAL
• 3 Artillery Street [childhood home 1871]
• 9 Upper North Street [childhood home 1877-1884]
• 14 Chatham Place [residence 1885-1895]
• 162a North Street [practice 1897-1899]
• Central Chambers, 3 North Street Quadrant [practice 1901-1907]
1849-1941
Born in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, son of a solicitor, he worked in Eastbourne (1874) before coming to Brighton c1880, where he was a partner in Gimblette & Street, then on his own account. By 1911 he was retired and had moved to London.
• Palmeira Mews (stables with living rooms, 1893)
PERSONAL
• 23 Goldstone Villas [1885-1886]
• 9 Lorna Road [1890-1891]
• 16 Palmeira Square [1899]
Partnership of H J Gimblette and —— Street
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 1 Goldstone Villas [1881]
• 17 Goldstone Villas [1881-1883]
• 2 Church Road [1883-1884]
1875-1946
Educated at Brighton Grammar School. Lived at Ditchling and taught at Brighton School of Art for many years. Tutor and later close colleague of Charles Knight. Some of his paintings are in the collection of the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust and more are in Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft.
• Brighton and Hove Grammar School, Dyke Road (murals)
• St Patrick's Church, Cambridge Road (design for stations of the cross)
1863-1941
He worked for Morris & Co; own business from c1919 in London but moved to Horsham in 1938.
• St Matthias' Church, Ditchling Road (glass)
1885-1950
Born in Huchesontown, Glasgow, the son of a provision merchant, he studied at Glasgow School of Architecture. During the First World War he served in the Glasgow Highlanders, was promoted to major and won the Military Cross. HE formed a partnership with Albert Victoer Gardner in Glasgow tos epcialise in the design of 'atmospheric' cinemas but the partnership ended when Glen was appointed architect to Associated BRitish Cinemas in London in 1929.
Partnership of Charles Richard Bayly Godman (1879-1946) and Claude John Kay (1878-1969). The firm is still practising in Cowfold but in the last years of the dfoudners and after their deaths work was carried out by others.
• St Luke's Prestonville, Old Shoreham Road (restored by N F Gossage, 1968-69)
1856-1921
Born in SHeffield, son of an ecclesiastical architect. he served his articles in his father's firm, Goldie & Child, and remained, the firm becoming Goldie, Child & Goldie. The firm became his from1893 until joined by his son to form Edward Goldie & Son, which practised until 1953.
• The Lees, 1 Manor Road (1906)
1775-1857
Architect.Born in London, pupil of John Soane. Surveyor to Commissioners for Building New Churches 1826-1857. He worked on the Royal Pavilion, including the North Gate and the stables behind Porden's facade.
• Brighton Pavilion, Old Steine (1831-32)
1887-1959
Architect and architctural historian.Born in Cambridge, the only child of a classics teacher who played for Old Etonians in four FA Cup Finals and grandson on his mother's side of 1st Baron Rendel, he was educated at Eton College and at home and read music at Trinity College, Cambridge. St Wilfrid's is one of his most noted works. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 1933-1936, converted to Catholicism in 1936 and was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1937-1939. He compiled an index of 19th century church builders. He was buried at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire and left £93,346 15s 10d.
Image: RIBA
• St Wilfrid's, Elm Grove 1933-34) now residential
• Norwich Union House, 166-169 North Street 1935-36) now Prince's House
1859-1892
Born in Rotherham, the son of a portrait painter, who died in 1871, leaving his widow with landed property. He died at Faversham, Kent.
• No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• 14 Devonshire Place [childhood residence 1871]
• 162 North Street [practice 1882-1887]
• 72 Park Road West [Queen's Park Road] [residence 1881-1886]
1908-1972
Member of the firm of Godman and Kay.
1852-1942
GOTCH, Laurence Murcell
1881-1972
John Alfred Gotch. Architect.He had a private practice in Kettering; partnership with Charles Saunders as Gotch & Saunders (1887); later with Henry Ralph Surridge as Gotch, Saunders & Surridge; all retired 1938 but practice still exists. FRIBA 1886. President Architectural Association 1886-87, president RIBA 1923-25. Principal designer for Midland Bank. Author of Early Renaissance Architecture of England (1901).
Laurene Murcell Gotch. Architect.
Nephew and pupil of J A Gotch. Founded L M Gotch and Partners in Brighton and London after the Second World War, the practice retaining that name after Gotch's retirement in 1955 until being renamed Wells-Thorpe and Partners c1972.
• HSBC Bank, 80 Western Road [? see also T B Whinney]
The firm retained Gotch's name until it was renamed Wells-Thorpe & Partners in c1972.
1830-1869
Son of John Nelson Goulty. With Amon Henry Wilds, John Cordy Burrows and his father, he founded the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in 1850, where he is buried. He lived with his parents and family, was borough councillor for Park ward (1865-1869), secretary of the Brighton School of Art, a registrar of marriages and a Knight Templar. He died in Shoreham.
† Norfolk Hotel, King's Road (1864-65)
• Cliftonville Congregational Church, Blatchington Road (1867) [later Central United Reformed Church]
† Grand Concert Hall, West Street and Middle Street [later Sherry's Dance Hall, etc] (1868, demolished 2021)
PERSONAL
• 187 Western Road [1852]
• 5 Pavilion Buildings [1854-56]
• 12 Union Street [1859]
• 1 Sussex Square [1859]
• 1-2 Sussex Square [1861]
Partnership of H N Goulty and J G Gibbins from 1867, still known as Goulty and Gibbins until 1896, even though Goulty died in 1869.
† Turkish Baths, 59 West Street [1869, later Academy Cinema, demolished 1973]
† St Mary's Schools, Mount Street [1872]
† chapel, 44 NEw England Road [1873]
PRACTICE
• Molesworth House, 3 Palace Place [from 1875]
1834-1907
Born in Newington, London, he moved to Brighton from Ewelme, Oxfordshire in the 1870s. Moved to Croydon by 1901 and died there.
• 8 Union Street [practice 1878-1881]
• 6 College Road [residence 1881]
• 2 Palace Place [practice 1882-1883]
1888?-1935?
• 150-156 Balfour Road
1843-1891
Trained at Clayton & Bell. Partner in Burlison & Grylls.
1880-1958
Architect.He studied at Glasgow School of Art and was admitted ARIBA in 1910, elected FRIBA in 1925, when one of his proposers was Edward Prioleau Warren. He joined the firm that became Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie in 1925 to work with them on the Grosvenor House project of which Edwin Lutyens was consultant. He retired in 1953.