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c1818-1891
HABERSHON, (Matthew) Edward FRIBA
1826-1900
Brothers William (FRIBA 1852) and Edward (FRIBA 1860) inherited their father's architectural practice in 1852. The partnership was dissolved in 1863 and Edward went into business with Henry Spalding. Retired 1879.
Partnership of William and Edward Habershon between 1852 and 1863.
• Brighton Business Centre, 95 Ditchling Road
• St John the Baptist, Church Road [1852]
1785-1875
HACKMAN, William Jr
1827-1906
HACKMAN, John Henry (Harry)
1865-1930
Born in Lindfield. In 1851 he employed three men. He left less than £450.
William Hackman Jr. Carpenter, builder, property owner and undertaker.
Only surviving son of William Hackman, he was born in Brighton into a Wesleyan family associated with Dorset Gardens Chapel. He went into business with his father and gradually took over the firm. In 1871 he employed eight men and one boy. He owned a number of propoerties: 67 Coleman Street in 1879 and by 1892 owned 1-3, 5-6, 11-14 Pevensey Road, 39 Wood Street and 32 Guildford Street. In probate not completed until 1924, he left £10,182 10s.
John Harry Hackman Jr. Builder.
Elder son of William Hackman Jr, he was born in Brighton. He was a builder's foreman in 1891 before working in his own right, mainly on conversions and additions. He left £18,454 9s 5d.
• 23 Sillwood Road (front, 1880)
• 2,4 Stafford Road (1888)
• 4-10 (even) Lancaster Road (1890-1891)
• 24,26 Lancaster Road (1893)
• 29-32 (consecutive),34 Chatsworth Road (1893-1895)
• 7-15 (odd) Buxton Road (1894-1895)
• 150 Dyke Road (1895)
• 154-164 (even) Dyke Road (1896-1897)
• 160,162 Dyke Road (1897)
• 314 Dyke Road (1903)
PERSONAL
† 36½ Upper Russell Street [family business and residence 1851-1868] becomes Hackman & Son
† 44 Grenville Place [1858-1861]
• 26 Western Cottages [1871-1873]
• 64 Preston Street [1871]
• 40 Wood Street [1873]
• 54 Sillwood Street [1880]
• 26 Sillwood Road [1866-1897]
• 13 Buxton Road [residence 1899-1906]
PERSONAL (John Henry)
• 32 Guildford Road [residence 1891]
• 5 Western Street [residence, business 1901]
• 15 Buxton Road [residence 1911]
• 31 Portland Villas [residence 1930]
William Hackman Sr and William Hackman Jr [qqv above]. Harry Hackman is individually identified in planning applications, so may not have been a member of the firm.
† 36½ Upper Russell Street [1858]
See also Hallett family under People.
• St John the Baptist Church, Bristol Road
PERSONAL
• 142 Marine Parade [residence, practice 1843]
1852-1946
Born in Islington but was living in Brighton by 1861; son of the minister at London Road Chapel, Ann Street. He was articled to Thomas Simpson, then with his own practice from 1878 . He was admitted to Society of Architects 1887. He retired 1919 but with one work after that date, in a very different style from his early work, apparently for himself or a family member. The listing of his work from planning applications is believed to be complete.
• 48-62 (even) Bentham Road [1879]
• 79-83 (off) Whichelo Place [1879]
• 2 North Road [shop, 1879]
• 2-18 (even) Chesham Street [1880]
• Salvation Army Citadel and 1-14 Park Crescent Terrace [1883, 1884]
• 1, 94 Cowper Street [1882]
• 46-47, 91, 93 London Road [1882]
• 9-15 (odd), 10-16 (even), 33, 35 Upper Westbourne Street [1882, 1883, 1886]
• 93 Cowper Street [shop, 1883]
• 119-125 Havelock Road [cottages, workshop 1883] includes Glovers Yard
• 88-94 (even), 111-125 Westbourne Street [1882, 1883, 1884]
• 91, 92-126 (even), 95, 97 Wordsworth Street [1883, 1884, 1890, 1891]
• 5 shops in 93 Sackville Villas (Gardens) [1884]
• 12, 13 Rose Hill [1884]
• 95-101 (odd), 94-106 (even), 103-129 Cowper Street [1885, 1886]
• Preston Laundry and 3 adjacent cottages, Pelham Terrace, Lewes Road [1889, 1891]
• 26-36 (even) Whippingham Road [1891]
• 29-43 (odd) Brading Road [1894]
• house and stable on east side of Walsingham Road [1895]
• 2-8 (even) Blaker Street [1896/97]
• 16-18 Harrington Road [1896]
• Bible Christian/Methodist Church, Stanford Road [1897-1898]
• 20-24 (even), 46, 48 Surrenden Road [1898, 1900]
• 33-39 (odd) Gordon Road [1900]
• Longstone, Church Place [1902]
• Montefiore Methodist Church and schools, 36 Montefiore Road [1904] now Grace Eyre/Purple Playhouse
• detached house, south-west side, Burton Villas [1906, probably no 1]
• detached house [? The Croft, 27a] in Shirley Drive [1921, additions 1922]
PERSONAL
• 10 Prince Albert Street [practice 1878-1885]
• 69/70 Ship Street [practice 1886-1890)
• 2 New Road [practice 1899-12]
• 13 Wellington Road [1912->33]
1845-1931
Architect.Pupil and from 1869 partner of his father, architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab. He took over the practice in 1880 and the following year inherited the practice of John Crawley.
• Church of the Sacred Heart, Norton Road
• St Joseph Catholic Church, Elm Grove [completed first phase 1886]
1875-1932
Assistant to and then general manager for G F Bodley, taking over the latter's practice on Bodley's death in 1907 and continuing as Bodley & Hare.
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road
1811-1867
Ecclesiastical design and stained glass.
• Holy Trinity Church, Blatchington Road
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road [glass]
• St Helen's Church, Hangleton Way [glass]
• St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street [glass]
• St Paul's Church, West Street [lectern]
1875-1932
Pupil, then assistant of G F Bodley, whose office he managed from 1901, taking over the practice after Bodley's death.
• St Michael and All Angels, Victoria Road (altarpiece)
1847-1919
Practice in Bristol.
• Lewes Road Congregational Church [1878-79]
1836-
• No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• 22 Clifton Street [1881]
1870-1941
Born in Brighton, son of a gasfitter and brass-finisher. He was a builder's clerk (1891) and had his own architectural practice by 1901. In 1908 he was admitted to the Atlingworth masonic lodge and in 1908-1912 was in partnership as Oakden & Hawker c1903-1904 and as Hawker & Clover (or Glover) c1908-1910. Nothing is known about these partners and little about him after 1912 until his death at Chanctonbury. Sometimes identified as W J Hawker. The listing is believed to be complete.
• 91, 93 Beaconsfield Villas [1902]
• 3-27 (odd), 4-38 (even) Ashford Road [1902]
• 24-44 (even) Lowther Road [1902/03]
• 6,8 Harrington Villas [1903]
• 110 Preston Drove [1903] identified as 110 Havelock Road in planning application.
• 28 houses in Cumberland Road [1903]
• detached house on north side of Wilbury Avenue [1903]
• detached house in seafront estate, King's Road [1906]
• 4 pairs of houses on east and west sides of Norman Road [1907]
• detached house on east side of Nizells Avenue [1912]
• 8-9 Burton Villas"> [1912]
• shop (9?) on north side of Lyndhurst Road [1912]
PERSONAL
• Frederick Street [childhood home 1870]
• 25 Terminus Road [childhood home 1871]
• 43 North Gardens [family home 1881-1891]
• 17 Preston Road [1901-1905]
• 9b North Street [practice 1907-1909]
• Central Chambers, 3 North Street Quadrant [practice 1912-1914]
• 26 Islingword Place [residence 1919]
• 9 Preston Park Avenue [residence 1939]
Partnership of J W Hawker and an architect called Clover (or possibly Glover), who remains elusive. The listing is believed to be complete.
• house in Cumberland Road [1908]
• house in 62-70 PortlandVillas [1908]
• house in 376 PortlandRoad [1908]
• pair of semi-detached houses in Wilbury Crescent [1903]
• 11 houses in Elm Grove [1908/09]
PRACTICE
• 9 North Street [1910-1912
1824-1882
Some work in partnership with Robert Turill Bayne.
• Chapel Royal, North Street [decoration]
• Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street [glass]
• St Matthias' Church, Ditchling Road [glass]
1826-1898
Son of an architect who restored medieval glass. Emigrated to Australia in 1860.
• St John the Baptist, Church Road [glass]
1842-1907
Born in Bristol, son of an army officer, he became a pupil of Clayton & Bell in 1868, after training in Edinburgh. He had his own practice in London by the early 1880s.
† Church of St Mary the Virgin, St James's Street (glass 1879)
† Emmanuel Church, Norfolk Terrace [1867-68, demolished 1965]
1842-1916
Architect, designer, sculptor, woodworker. • Church of St John the Evangelist, Preston Road [reredos, 1902]
1881-1959
Born in Wandsworth and had his pratcice in London until moving to Sussex (Bognor, then Worthing) in the mid 1920s.
• Holy Cross Church, Warren Road, Woodingdean [rebuilt 1941]
1889-1940
Architect.Born in the village of Culvem, near Gorai, at the age of seven he went to Mumbai for his education. After graduating from art school he was attached to the consulting architect of the government of Bombay. He was sent to England in 1915 with a scholarship to the Royal Institute of British Architects, from which he gaduated in 1916. Sir Swinton Jacob, who was to have designed the memorial to 53 Indian soldiers cremated on the Downs above Brighton, recommended Henriques. It was designed in 1917 and construction was completed in 1920. He returned to his homeland, becoming assistant architect to the gobvernment of Bombay and later architectural adviser to the governement of India.
• The Chattri, off the A23 at Patcham (1917, built 1920)
1887-1970
Trained at the Royal College of Art and later taught painting at Brighton College of Art. He designed the lion logo for the 1924 Empire Exhibition and many London Underground posters.
• St Andrew's Church, Colbourne Avenue, Moulsecoomb [painting, 1924]
1886-1978
Born in Ewell, Surrey. Member of the RIBA in 1910 and in practice from 1911, when he was admitted an ARIBA. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1922 and then at the Searle & Searle practice in London by the mid 1920s, a partner in the 1930s-1940s. He designed at least six Sussex churches—the first being at Moulsecoomb—and was much involved with the Chailey Heritage site. He lived and died at Ardingly. His working papers are in the West Sussex Record Office.
• St Andrew's Church, Colbourne Avenue, Moulsecoomb [1932]
• Church of the Ascension, Bramber Avenue, Peacehaven [1955]
• Church of Christ the King, Braybon Avenue [1959]
1870-c1940
Architect and surveyor.Born in Tonbridge, son of the vicar of St Luke's Prestonville. His work elsewhwere included rebuilding Holy Trinity Church, Derby. By 1908 he was ordained and later owned an antique shop.
• Providence Chapel, West Hill Road [1894-96, later Nathaniel Reformed Episcopal Church]
PERSONAL
• 118 Queen's Road [practice 1899]
• Church House, 2 Lancaster Road [family residence 1891]
• 17 Clifton Hill [residence 1901]
1906-1966
Born in Stirling, Scotland. died in Guildford, Surrey and left £95,220. His only other known work is the United Reform Church, Woking.
• Brighton Fire Station, Preston Circus (1938)
1847->1911
Born in Brighton, son of a corset maker. He was fined £2 in 1873 when a building he had designed collapsed during construction. He had left Brighton by 1890.
• St Luke's Prestonville Church, Old Shoreham Road
• 9-17 Paston Place (1871)
• 119-122 Church Street (1871)
PERSONAL
• 113 St James's Street [childhood home 1851-1861]
• 11 York Place [1871-1872]
• 19 Prince Albert Street [practice 1873-1875]
• 6 York Road [residence 1872-1881]
• 71 Ship Street [practice 1883]
1845-1938
His workshop was in Battersea.
• All Saints Church, The Drive [fittings 1891]
1776-1844
HITCHINS, Henry
1814-1893
HITCHINS, Frederick
1818-1865
Styled as 'gentleman' at the baptism of his son Frederick. Born in Deptford, London. He married Elizabeth Hardwick (1781-1853) of the family at Hangleton Farm. Died in Brighton.
Henry Hitchins Civil engineer and surveyor.
Born in Litlington, Sussex, second son of John Hitchins. Partner with his brother Frederick in H&F Hitchins [qv]. By 1871 he was living in London but then appears to have become a wine merchant in St Peter Port, Guernsey. He died in London.
Frederick Hitchins Civil engineer and surveyor.
Born in Litlington, Sussex, fourth son of John Hitchins. Partner with his brother Henry in H&F Hitchins [qv]. He married in Havant, Hampshire in 1848 and, after a period at Reigate, lived there until his death.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 27 Devonshire Place [John, 1839]
Partnership of Henry and Frederick Hitchins. They produced tithe maps of a number of Sussex parishes in the 1840s, including Preston. They had parted and left Brighton by 1848.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 15 Devonshire Place [1843]
• 20 Richmond Place [1845-1846]
1845-1922
HOLFORD, George
1851- ?
Born in Brighton, eldest son of a wine merchant and succeeded him in the business in North Street. He was church warden of St Michael & All Angels from c1893 but moved to London early in the new century. He died at East Timewell, Morebath, Devon.
George Holford. Architect.
Born in Brighton, third son of a wine merchant and younger brother of Frank Holford, he was an articled pupil of Thomas Simpson. In 1876 he formed a partnership with another former Simpson pupil, Charles E Clayton. Ernest Black joined in 1882 but Holford left the firm in 1883. He appears to have left Brighton at this time. Information about the rest of his life is not known.
• St Michael & All Angels, Victoria Road [wall paintings]
See also Holford & Clayton
PERSONAL
• 7 North Street [family home, 1851]
PERSONAL (Frank)
• 10 Cobden Place [residence 1871]
• 25 Buckingham Place [residence 1871-1901]
PERSONAL (George)
• 24 Clifton Road [residence, 1871]
• 53 Buckingham Place [family home 1878]
Partnership formed in 1876 by George Holford [qv] and Charles E Clayton. Holford died in 1879 but the firm's name was retained until Ernest Black joined (see next entry). The listing of work is believed to be complete.
• 196 Dyke Road (lodge, stables 1876)
† TA Centre, Dyke Road (1876)
• 2 houses in Middle Street (1876)
† warehouse, Spring Gardens (1876)
• Friends' Meeting House, Ship Street (extened, modernised 1876-1877)
• warehouse, Whitecross Street (1877)
† 55, 57, 59 Ellen Street (1877)
† 1-4, 6 Victoria Street (1877)
• 81 Queen's Road (warehouse and offices 1877)
• 95 Queen's Road (warehouse and offices 1878-1879)
† 72, 74, 76; 99 Conway Street (1878)
• 12a Marlborough Place (1878)
† soldiers' home (later Connaught Institute), 131 Lewes Road (1879; classroom 1886)
• Trinity Church, Ship Street (school room, 1880)
• High Croft, Dyke Road (1880)
• 22, 24, 26 Crescent Road (1880)
• High Croft, 37a Highcroft Villas, Dyke Road Drive (1880)
• 1-12, 19-22 Highcroft Villas, Dyke Road Drive (1881)
• 6-13 Southampton Street (1881)
• 36 Highcroft Villas, Dyke Road Drive (1882)
PRACTICE
• 152 North Street [1877-1880]
Ernest Black joined the architects firm in 1882 and the firm's name changed briefly, before becoming Clayton & Black the same year.
• Cliftonville Congregational Church, Blatchington Road (school rooms, 1882)
PRACTICE
• 152 North Street [1882-1885]
1839-1927
Trained at the RA Schools, he was a friend of Edward Burne-Jones and protégé of William Burges.
• Church of St Martin, Lewes Road [glass]
• Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street [glass]
1884-
Born at Iver, Buckinghamshire, son of a painter turned builder (by 1910), he came to Aldrington with his family. He was a buulder's clerk in 1901 and a surveyor when he married at St Patrick's Church in 1910. His wife died in January 1912. He was agent for the Aldrington Estate in the period before he emigrated and re-married in February 1914 at Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
• 385-403 and 11 other houses in Portland Road (1905-1906)
• 26 bungalows at Aldrington Basin (1908-1909)
• 1 pair semi-detached houses in Leicester Villas (1909)
• New street making up at Portland Road for Stretton Estate (1909-1911)
PERSONAL
• 12 Upper Westbourne Street becomes 98 Westbourne Street [family residence 1896-1902]
• Aldrington Estate Office, Iver Lodge, Portland Road [1904-1912]
1745-1806
Architect.Born in Fulham, son of a building contractor who carried out several designs by of Capability Brown, whose daughter Holland married. A specialist in country houses, he was engaged by the Prince of Wales in 1788 to transform the farmhouse next to the Steine. Further extensions and alterations were proposed in 1795 but for financial reasons were not executed until 1801. In 1803 he produced a design for a Chinese-style pavilion but this was not carried out and it was left to John Nash to fulfill that idea. He was a founder member of the Architects Club in 1791.
IMage: woodcut portrait by G Garrard.
† Marine Pavilion, Old Steine (1788-1801) [forerunner of the Royal Pavilion]
1865-1949
Born at Hurstpierpoint, son of a builder.
• No work found so far
PERSONAL
• 3 North Street Quadrant [1899]
Active in Preston and Brighton and brickmakers at Plumpton and elsewhere. The partnership was dissolved 1873.
1882-1949
Born at Chalvington, son of a farmer.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 89 Lewes Road [youthful residence, 1901]
• Brooklyn, 333 Ditchling Road [1915-1949]
1888-1934
A pupil of Sir John Ninian Comper
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road (rood figures)
1921-
Engineer and surveyor.Living in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, he was serving an apprenticeship with a constructional engineer in 1939. He was Brighton borough engineer and surveyor from c1945 to 1966 and in office for the most extensive programme of redevelopment in the town and designed most of the tower blocks built in that period; in 1971 he was the honorary surveyor.
Image: Royal Pavilion & Museums.
• Stanmer Estate farms (revised layout, 1945)
• Brighton Aquarium Restaurant, Madeira Drive (1947)
• three bus shelters, Old Steine (1949)
• Black Rock Bathing Pool, Madeira Drive (1950)
• Beechland Estate, Rottingdean (layout, c1954)
• Courtlands, Albion Rise (1958-1961)
• Saxonbury, Albion Rise (1958-1961)
• Highleigh, Grove Hill (1958-1961)
• Normanhurst, Grove Hill (1958-1961)
• Ecclesden, Albion Hill (1961-1963)
• Thornsdale, Albion Hill (1961-1963)
• St James's House, High Street (1964-1966)
• Conway Court, Clarendon Road (1965-1967)
• Richmond Heights, John Street (1965-1967)
(b.1968)
She studied at the School of Architectural Glass, Swansea 1989-1992. She has had a studio at Chichester since 1996.
• St Paul's Church, West Street [doors]
• Friese Greene House, 193 Portland Road [glass, 2015]
1833-1904
Born in Sandhurst, Kent, son of an agricultural labourer.
• Patcham Mill, Windmill Drive (1884/85)
PERSONAL
• 3 [North Cottages] Middle Lane [= 42 Middle Road], Preston [1861-1908]
1844-1919
Born in Westminster, London, he practiced only briefly in Brighton.
† Norfolk Stables, Sillwood Street (18750
PERSONAL
• 17 Prince Albert Street [practice 1877-1880]
• Redcliffe, 66 Wilbury Road [residence 1877-1885]
1868-1928
Born in Brighton, the son of a surgeon. He was a pupil of and then assistant to G F Bodley before establishing his own practice in London in 1894. He lived in later years and died at Iden, near Rye. His name is also spelled Humphrey.
• St Agnes' Church, Newtown Road (1913)
PERSONAL
• 25 Marine Parade [childhood home 1868-1881?]
1861-1935
Born in Brighton, son of a commission agent turned corn and coal merchant, who by the late 1870s had premises at five locations in Brighton and Hove. Simeon went into architectural partnership with Benjamin Nunn in 1891 as Nunn & Hunt, keeping on the practice after Nunn's retirement. He died at St George Nursing Home, Hurstpierpoint and left £1,216 14s 2d.
• house, warehouse in Hampton Street (1899, demolished c1934 for Mitre House in Western Road)
• warehouse in South Street (1901)
See also Nunn & Hunt
PERSONAL
• 5 Pelham Square [childhood residence, 1861-1862, probable birthplace]
• 15 Western Road, Hove [residence 1864-1880]
• 5 Alexandra Villas [family residence 1881-1888]
• Havelock Villa, 1 Havelock Road [residence 1889-1892]
• 15 Walpole Terrace [residence 1893-1902]
• 129 Queen's Road [practice 1899-1918]
• Elim, 24 Chatsworth Road [residence 1903-1913]
• 5 Lancaster Road [residence 1913-1926]
• 139 Preston Road [residence 1927-1929]
• 9 Albert Road [residence 1932]
• 13 Chatsworth Road [residence 1933]
• 96 Rugby Road [residence 1935]
1846-1913
HYDE, Frederick William
1848-1927?
Pupil and later partner of E E Scott 1874-1882. Son of a surveyor and mason, brother of F W Hyde; born and lived all his life at Broadwater, New Shoreham (Worthing), Sussex; direct at Kingston. His son Raymond was also an architect.
Frederic William Hyde Surveyor and architect.
Son of a surveyor and mason, brother of R S Hyde. Practiced also in Worthing (1878).
• 160-164 Lewes Road [1874]
• 1-35 (odd) and 2-36 Cuthbert Road [1877]
• 31-43 Sutherland Road [1877]
See also Scott & Hyde
PERSONAL (FW)
• 37 North Street [practice 1878-1885]
• 26 Belfast Street, Hove [lodgings 1881]