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JACKSON, Charles W
Land surveyor, auctioneer, estate agent and valuer.
      Mainly at Tulse Hill, London and briefly in Brighton, when he built several properties in Aldrington.
WORK
Carlisle Road [layout, 1881]
1-10 Walsingham Terrace (1881-1882)
43 New Church Road [1884]

PERSONAL
27-28 Western Road [practice 1882-1886]
JACKSON, Frederick Hamilton (Frank)
1848-1923
Designer, painter and teacher.
      Founder of Chiswick School of Art, member of the Art Workers' Guild. The mosaic in St Bartholomew's is among his most noted works.
WORK
St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street [mosaics]
JACKSON, Sir Thomas Graham bt
1835-1924
Sir Thomas JacksonArchitect.
      Educated at Brighton College and Oxford, a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. Own practice from 1863, member of the Art Workers Guild (master 1896). Consultant for St Augustine's 1894-1913. Created a baronet in 1913. There is a memorial tablet to him in Brighton College chapel.
Image: gilbertscott.org
WORK
Brighton College, Eastern Road [extensions 1883-87]
St Augustine's Church, Stanford Avenue [extension 1913]
James & Brown
Architects. WORK
Union Chapel, Queen Square [1834-35]
James, William, & Co
Stained glass manufacturers.
      Based in north London, established before 1870.
WORK
Chapel Royal, North Street [glass]
JARVIS, Henry Jr FRIBA
1844-1910
Henry JarvisArchitect and surveyor.
      He was born in Newington, Surrey, the son of the district surveyor for Southwark. His practice with his father, also Henry Jarvis, was as Henry Jarvis & Son and worked mainly in London. FRIBA 1878. He died in Rome and left £36,047 11s 1d, of which between £15,000 and £20,000 was in trust to the RIBA for travelling scholarships and the purchase and upkeep of the RIBA headquarters in Portland Place, London, which includes the Henry Jarvis Memorial Hall1.
Image: photographic portrait by Allen Hastings Fry [RIBA].
WORK
42 East Street (1866) for Hanningtons store

PERSONAL
9 Norfolk Terrace [residence 1905-1910]

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JAY, George Mathias
1859-1925
George JayArchitect and builder.
      Born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, son of a bricklayer. He was a bricklayer and plasterer (1881) before coming to Hove by 1891 as an architect and builder.
WORK
13-19. 15, 27 Fourth Avenue [1893-1895]
Portland Villas [street layout 1896]
• 8 houses on west side, Portland Villas [1896]
• 7 houses, 2 shops in Sackville Road [probably 124-138 (even) 1896]
• 3 pairs of semi-detached villas, Wilbury Villas [1903]

PERSONAL
12 Connaught Terrace [1890-1893]
20 Middle Road [1895-1898]
45 Church Road [1899]
1 Pembroke Avenue [1901-1904]
Fair View, [327] New Church Road [1905]
49 Boundary Road [1907-1910]
JENNINGS, Frank
1877-1962
Frank JenningsArchitect.
      Member of the firm of Coleridge, Jennings & Soimenow, born in Newmarket, son of a well-to-do racehorse trainer. A Guild Socialist and member of the Arts & Crafts movement, he settled in Walberswick, Suffolk and was the father of important documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings, one of the founders of Mass-Observation.
WORK
Courtenay Gate [1934]
Johns & Buckwell
Architects and surveyors.
      Short-lived partnership of —— Johns and T H Buckwell. Buckwell has his own practice by 1888.
WORK
No work identified so far.

PRACTICE
33 New Road [1886-87]
JOHNSON, I
Architect and surveyor. WORK
Stables, later fire station, then bottling plant 1A-2 Wyndham Street (1865-66)
JOHNSTON, Philip Mainwaring
1865-1936
Architect and writer.
      Wrote about Sussex churches, leading light of the Sussex Archaeological Society. In practice from 1881, specialist in church restoration.
WORK
St Peter's Church, Preston [restoration after 1906]
JONES, Jude
1844-1914
JONES, Francis Jude
1873-1937
Jude Jones      Jude Jones. Builder, carpenter. [right]
      Son of Thomas Jones, a journeyman carpenter on the Stanmer estate, where he was born. Returned from working in Brighton to work at Stanmer by 1881, living in a lodge on the estate. He was a building/carpentry foreman by 1891 and estate foreman by 1911. His son Francis Jude Jones was also a carpenter on the estate.
      Francis Jude Jones. Carpenter.
Son of Jude Jones, worked as a carpenter on the Stanmer estate, living with his parents in a lodge there.
WORK
Stanmer House
Stanmer Church [fittings by Jude, doors by Francis Jude]
JONES, Richard William Herbert
1900-1965
Architect.
      Worked for Charles Nevill on key buildings in Saltdean.
WORK
Ocean Hotel, Saltdean [1938]
Saltdean Lido [1938]
Curzon House, Chichester Road East
Marine View, Marine Drive, Saltdean
Teynham House, Chichester Road East
Jones & Willis Designers.
      Partnership formerly known as Newton, Jones & Willis, founded in Birmingham.
WORK
St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean (fittings)
Church of St Barnabas, Byron Street (glass)
Church of St Michael & All Angels, Victoria Road (glass)
Joseph & Smithers
Builders. WORK
67-68 King's Road [former Daily Telegraph building, rebuilt 1907]
     

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