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| LAING, David 1774-1856 |
Architect and surveyor. Born at St Dunstan's in the East, Middlesex, son of a City merchant, he was articled to Sir John Soane c1790 and in 1811 was appointed surveyor at the Custom House. He was the author of Hints for Dwellings, consisting of original designs for cottages, farmhouses, villas, etc (1800, 2nd edn 1841). He designed the new church of St Dunstan's in the East with his pupil (Sir) William Tite in 1817-1819. He may have moved to Brighton as a result of litigation about the collapse in 1825 of a new custom house to the west of Sir Christopher Wren's original building, which he designed, that was built in 1813-1817. While living and working in Brighton he was described in Census1851 as 'Architect & Agent Royal'. His wife Elizabeth ran a boarding house at the same address as his practice. He returned to live in London and was buried in Brompton Cemetery. |
WORK • No work identified so far. PERSONAL • 2 Manchester Street [1839-52] |
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LAINSON, Thomas FRIBA 1825-1898 LAINSON, Thomas James 1854-1924 LAINSON, Arthur Henry 1859-1922 |
Thomas Lainson. Architect and surveyor. Born in Lambeth. Own practice from 1862 in Brighton. FRIBA 1877. He was in partnership with two of his three sons, Thomas (James) and Arthur, as Lainson & Sons from 1881 and served as architect to the Goldsmid and Vallance estates and as surveyor of the Harrington Estate in 1894. Among work away from Brighton, he designed Reading town hall, library and museum (1882). He favoured an Italianate style. He left £577 0s 6d. Thomas James Lainson. Architect. Hove-born, he was training with his father Thomas Lainson by 1871 and then in partnership with him from 1881. He lived with his parents until at least 1901, possibly 1905, then in lodgings until he left Brighton during ot just after the First World War for Balham, London, where he died, leaving £264 19s 0d. Arthur Henry Lainson. Architect. Second son of Thomas Lainson. Almost all his architectural work involved conversion of large houses in Brunswick Town and Hove into flats and maisonettes—80 out of 102 planning applications with his name in Hove between 1906 and 1918. He left £222 17s 0d. |
COMMEMORATION • Lainson House, Dyke Road WORK (Thomas) • 6-21 Norfolk Terrace (1870) • 13-19 Norfolk Terrace (1870) • 88-93 Western Road and 32-47 Sillwood Road (1870) • Bristol Road Methodist Church, Montague Place (1872) • Adelaide Mansions, 1-4 Kingsway (1873) † The New Club, 133-134 King's Road (1874-76, demolished c1938 and replaced) • Middle Street Synagogue (1875) † 44-45 King's Road (retail store 1876) • Brooker Hall, 19 New Church Road (now Hove Museum) (1876-77) • Pelham Institute, Upper Bedford Street (1877) • 20 West Street (1877) † 128-130, 134-135 North Street (1877) † Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road (1888-81; dormitories 1896; outpatients department, 1903; mortuary 1904) • Brighton and Hove Co-operative Society Repository, 75 Holland Road (1893) WORK (Thomas James) • 49-91 Hollingbury Road (1902) • 162-172 Freshfield Road (1903) † Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road (outpatients department, 1903; mortuary 1904) • 3 houses in Roedale Road (1904, 1905) • 4 houses and laundry and 20 houses in Hollingdean Terrace (1905, 1906) • 6 houses and 7 houses in Hollingbury Place (1905, 1906) • 3 houses in Hollingbury Road (1905, 1906) • caretaker's house and mortuary, Hebrew Cemetery, Bear Road (1919) WORK (Arthur Henry) • 361-367 Old Shoreham Road (1904) PERSONAL (Thomas) • 54 Western Road, Hove [residence 1859-64] • 190 North Street [practice 1862-1877] • 170 North Street [practice from 1877] • 4 Lansdowne Terrace West [residence 1865-1871] • 5 St John's Terrace [residence 1873-1884] • 104 Lansdowne Place [residence 1890-1898, deathplace] PERSONAL (Thomas James) • 104 Lansdowne Place [residence 1890-1901] • 5 Medina Terrace [lodging, 1911]] PERSONAL (Arthur) • 104 Lansdowne Place [residence 1890-1901] • 8 Middle Street [practice 1904] • 59 Ship Street [practice 1912] • 41 Norfolk Road [lodging with wife 1911] • 101a Lansdowne Place [sic] [residence 1922] • 41 Brunswick Place [deathplace 1922] |
| Lainson, Thomas, & Sons |
Architectural firm. Partnership of Thomas Lainson and his sons Thomas James Lainson (from 1881) and Arthur Henry Lainson. |
WORK • Palmeira House, Palmeira Square (1887) • Jewish Convalescent Home, Montgomery Street (1889) • 4 houses including 1, 3 in Bertram Road (1890, 1892) • 37-67 (odd) Montgomery Street (1892, 1893) • Hebrew Cemetery mortuary, prayer hall, Ohel and cottage, Florence Place and Hollingdean Road (1891) • Montgomery Street (1894-1895) PRACTICE • 170 North Street [1882-1890] |
| Lainson, Son & Lindsay |
Architectural firm. Partnership of Arthur Lainson [qv] and Lindsay. |
WORK • No work identified so far PRACTICE • 56 East Street [1912] |
| LAMB, Percy Alden 1871-1947 |
Architect and surveyor. Notable for catholic churches and convents. For the first 12 years of his career he was clerk of works on Westminster Cathedral. He established his own practice in 1907, by 1910 at 13 John Street, London WC2. |
WORK • St Mary Roman Catholic Church, Surrenden Road (1910-21) |
| LAMBERT, William 1789-1862 |
Stone mason, civil engineer. Born in Brighton, son of a builder who moved here from Croydon, and baptised at Bond Street Baptist Chapel. He built the sea wall along Marine Parade between 1833 and 1838 at a cost of £100,000. |
WORK • Sea wall PERSONAL • 33 Waterloo Street [residence 1851] • 67 Western Road [business premises 1845-1859] |
| Lambert & Son, W | Stone masons. | WORK • All Saints Church, Church Hill, Patcham (memorial, 1829) PREMISES • 92 Western Road [1832] |
| LANCHESTER, Henry Jones FRIBA 1834-1914 |
Architect. Born in Islington, Middlesex. He set up his own practice in 1856, working on railway projects and the development of Greenwich. Around 1870 he moved to Brighton, where he worked as surveyor of the Stanford estate during its principal development phase. By 1891 he had moved back to London but had returned to Lindfield, Sussex by 1909, where he died. FRIBA 1903. He was the author of How to Make a House Healthy and Comfortable (1872). His eldest son, Henry Vaughan Lanchester, was also an architect (vice-president of the RIBA) and another son, Frederick was a noted motor engineer and a founder of the Lanchester Motor Company. His daughter Edith (1871-1966) was a radical socialist who was briefly committed to an asylum for the insane when she married an 'artisan-class' person. She died in Brighton. |
WORK • 2-30 (even) Winchester Street (1875) • 15-25 (odd) Clarendon Road (1875) • 69-87 (odd) Church Road (1875) • 21, 23, 27, 29 Clyde Road (1875) † Amber Ale (Longhurst) Brewery, London Road/Viaduct Road (1876) • 68-96 (even) Goldstone Villas (shops, 1876) • Railway Hotel, 78 Ditchling Rise (1877) now The Signalman • 1-29 (odd), 18-30 (even) Gerard Street (1877) • 47-91 (odd), 82-98 (even) Shaftesbury Road (1877, 1878, 1880) • 66 Clyde Road (1877) • 50, 56, 58, 60, 68-74 (even) Ditchling Rise (1877-1878) • 51 Clyde Road (1879) • Mercia House, 1 Lansdowne Road (1880) • Palmeira Mansions, Church Road (1883-1884) PERSONAL • 21 Montpelier Road [1871] • 1 St John's Terrace [1877-1884] • 49 Church Road [1885-1886] |
| LANSDOWN, J Chester -1878 |
Surveyor. He spent most of his life and career in London. |
WORK • No work identified so far PRACTICE • 8 Union Street [1874] • 54 Ship Street [1874-1880] |
| LATHAM, Charles James 1883-1963 |
Architect. He designed the Church of the Good Shepherd at Shoreham Beach (1913). |
WORK • No work identified so far PRACTICE • 34 Duke Street [1911-1913] |
| Lavers & Barraud | Stained glass designers. Partnership of Nathaniel Wood Lavers and Francis Philip Barraud. |
WORK • St Mark's Church, Eastern Road (glass) |
| Laxton, W & H |
Architects. Also at 19 Arundel Street, Strand, London (1854). |
WORK • No work identified so far PRACTICE • 2 York Road |
| LEACH, William |
Land surveyor. | WORK • No work identified so far PERSONAL • 24 London Road [1839-1843] |
| LEANEY, Thomas 1782-1859 Also spelt Leany. |
Land surveyor. |
WORK • No work identified so far PERSONAL • 14 Crescent Street [1824] • 20 Crescent Street [1832] • 14 Tidy Street [1840] • 18 Tidy Street [1841-1843] • 1 Tidy Street [1845-1846] |
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LEGGATT, Henry 1814-1888 LEGGATT, Thomas George 1844-1916 |
Henry Leggatt. Builder. He employed 11 men (1851), 19 men (1861). His executors were his widow and William Garrett; he left 1,953 0s 2d. Thomas Leggatt. Builder and surveyor. Born in Brighton, son of Henry Leggatt. He was a surveyor's apprentice (1861). He was in partnership with his father as Leggatt & Son and employed 12 men and two boys (1871). He retired and was living on private means by 1911. He left £3,397 9s 8d. |
WORK • 3 St George's Terrace (1873) • 26 Sutherland Road (1881) • 119-120 St George's Road (1882) • 58 Islingword Road (stable and shed at reservoir 1885) PERSONAL (Henry) • Upper Edward Street [family residence 1841] • 14 Chapel Street [family residence 1851-1888, deathplace] PERSONAL (Thomas) • 19 Park Street [1871] • 44 St James's Street [1880-1901] • Redgable, 10 Southdown Avenue [1880-1901] |
| LE MAITRE, William Courtnay FRIBA 1882-1931 |
Architect. Born in London. In 1898 he was articled to Percy Paul Green, and then worked as his assistant, qualifying in 1905. He started his own practice in London in 1908. FRIBA 1925. His work in Hove was for C A Vandervell & Co. |
WORK † Temporary munitions factory and extensions, Portland Road (1917) † Extension of factory and temporary buildings, Stoneham Road (1917) |
| Lewis, Arthur, & Co |
Architectural practice. | WORK • No work identified so far. PERSONAL • 69 Ship Street [1884-1885] |
| LEWIS J, Jr |
Architect. | WORK • No work identified so far. PERSONAL • 74 Western Road, Hove [1856-1859] |
| LEWONSKI, Samuel Thompson 1859-1942 |
Developer. Born in Woolwich, Kent. Carpenter (1881). Also a furniture dealer and broker, furniture remover. Traded as Lewonski & Sons, under which name the firm also provided funeral transport. In 1916 the firm acquired the Electric Empire Palace cinema. He joined the Adur masonic lodge in 1894, listed as a contractor, and was later master mason. By 1899 he lived at Upper Beeding. He left £3,200 5s 5d. |
WORK • 4 terraced houses, west side, Sackville Road (1897) • warehouse extension to rear of 12-20 Shirley Street (1897, re-erected 1915) • 38 terraced houses, north side, Recreation Avenue [Marine Avenue] (1906) • 83 Recreation Avenue [Marine Avenue] (1906) PERSONAL • 13 Goldstone Road [residence 1881, uncle's house] • 20 and 91 Blatchington Road [1891] • 37 George Street [1891-1895] • 38 Goldstone Villas [residence -1942] • 3 Clarendon Villas [deathplace] |
| LEWRY, Henry |
Builder and developer. Henry's name is rendered as 'Lewer' for a period in planning applications. Lewry & Smith (1856). It is not clear if he was related to John Lewry. | WORK • No work identified so far PERSONAL • 15 Church Street [practice 1856-1865] |
| LEWRY, John 1802-1878 |
Carpenter and builder. Born in Ditchling. Leury & Co (1859). His name was also spelt Lurry (Census1841) and Lewrie (Census1861). It is not clear if he was related to Henry Lewry. |
WORK • No work identified so far PERSONAL • 21 Kew Street [1841-1851] • 34 Frederick Place [1859-1868] • 36 St Nicholas Road [1871-1878] |
| LIPSCOMBE, J |
Architect. |
>WORK • No work identified so far PERSONAL • 1 St George's Terrace [1877] |
| LOADER, Arthur 1839-1895 |
Architect, surveyor and civil engineer. Brighton-born son of a master poulterer. He also had an office in Shoreham while working on the restoration of New Shoreham Church. H B Measures trained in his practice. His name remained in the practice of Loader & Long (1895-1899), despite his early death. He was a Brighton Borough councillor for Pier Ward 1887-1895. a member of the Brighton Cemetery Burial Board and a churchwarden at St Peter's parish church. |
WORK • 53-55 East Street (rebuild for John Beal & Co, 1878) • 82-88 (even) Preston Road (1878) • Congregational Church, Sudeley Place (1892) • 1-52 Grove Street (1892) See also Loader & Long PERSONAL • 10 Preston Street [childhood home 1839-] • 62 Ship Street [1877] • 54 Old Steine [practice 1878-1890] • 52½ East Street [practice 1878] • 2 Richmond Terrace [residence 1891) |
| Loader & Long |
Architectural firm. Prolific partnership of Arthur Loader and Edgar Wallis Long [qqv], active 1895-1899, following Loader's death—hence all the work can be attributed to Long. This listing is believed to be complete for the partnership's housing, shops and commercial premises in Brighton and Hove. |
WORK • 85 Queen's Park Road (1895) • 9-27 (odds) Compton Road (1895) • 14-15a Chapel Street (1895) • 77-84, 88, 89, 95, 96 Albion Hill (1895) • 94-94a London Road (1895) • 12-22 (evens) Compton Road (1895) • 57-67 Richmond Street (1895) • 9-35 (odds) Roedale Road (1895) • 49, 50 Hampstead Road (1895) • 1-7 Windmill Terrace (1895) • 5-7 Kingsley Road (1895) • 2 Compton Road (bakery, 1896) • 45-91 (odds) Bear Road (1896) • 34, 36 Harrington Road (1896) • Soapworks, Hollingdean Road (1896) • 168, 170, 172 Queen's Park Road (1896) • 49-56 Richmond Street (1896) • 14 Upper Hamilton Road (shop, 1896) • 2 Inwood Crescent (shop, 1896) • 4, 6, 8, 14, + 4 more Compton Road (1896) • 39, 41, 43 Millers Road (1896) • 51, 52 Hampstead Road (1896) • 10 Florence Road (1896) • 2-52 (evens) Roedale Road (1896) • 30, 32, 34 Kingsley Road (1896) • 75, 77, 125, 127 Bonchurch Road (1897) • 12, 14 Tivoli Crescent (1897) • 1, 4, 6 Maldon Road (1897) • 1 house in Goldsmid Road (1897) † Pavilion, Avenue Lawn Tennis Club, Florence Road (1897) • 184 Tivoli Crescent [North] (1897) • 1 Woodside Avenue (1897) • 319 Dyke Road (1897) • 3 houses, Arundel Road (1897) • 21-47 (odds) Compton Road (1897) • 48 Hampstead Road (1898) • 310 Dyke Road (1898) • 1, 3 ,5 Tivoli Crescent (1898) • 2 Maldon Road (1898) • 4 houses in Melville Road (1898) • 1 shop, Montefiore Road west side (1898) • detached villa, Cromwell Road south side (1899) • 1 house in Melville Road (1899) • 2 Woodside Avenue (1899) • 26 Inwood Crescent (1899) • 20, 21, 22 Bath Street (1899) • 7, 9, 2-10 (evens), 16, 40-50 (evens) Tivoli Crescent (1899) • 274, 276, 278, 312 Dyke Road (1899) • 40, 42 Harrington Road (1899) • 23 (shop), 25, 27 The Drove (1899) • 107-115 Preston Drove (1899) • 44, 46, 50 Harrington Road (1900) • 4, 6, 8, 10, 103 Tivoli Crescent (1900) • 278 Dyke Road (1900) • 69, 71 Millers Road (1900) PRACTICE • 54 Old Steine [1895-1899] |
| LOCKWOOD, Philip Causton 1821-1908 |
Civil engineer and architect. Born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, son of a builder. He came to Brighton from Arundel where he worked as an architect and clerk of the works for the local authority. He came to Brighton as Borough Surveyor in 1858 and held the post until 1889, after which he practised as a consulting civil engineer. His salaray was raised from £400 to £500 a year in 1872. He left £2,384 18s 2d. |
WORK • Free Libary and Museum, Church Street (1871) • seafront railings, Marine Parade (1881) • Western bandstand, King's Road (1884) PERSONAL • 5 Clifton Street [residence 1858] • 19 Black Lion Street [office, residence? 1859] • 15 St George's Place [residence 1861] • Albert Cottage, 85 (later 124) Southover Street [residence 1862-66] • 1 Gloucester Place [residence 1867-1908, deathplace] |
| LOCKYER, George R 1830-1892 |
Carpenter and builder. Born in Southampton, he employed 50-100 men (1881). The firm was Lockyer & Sons in 1898. He worked mostly as a jobbing builder and little of his more substantial work remains. |
WORK • 8 Camden Terrace (1865) • 23, 25 St George's Mews (1866) • 8, 9 Sudeley Street (1868) • Schools for Jews' Synagogue, 37-39 Devonshire Place (1870) • Town Hall, Bartholomews (alterations, 1871) • 14-15 Camden Terrace (1873) † Hanover Terrace Board Schools (1873) † Brighton New School of Science and Art, Grand Parade (1876-77) • 13 Camden Terrace (1881) † Presbytery, Little Sisters Home of the Poor Aged, Old Shoreham Road [1892] • Pair of semi-detached villas, Walsingham Road, east side (1897) † Prudential Assurance Company, 52-52½ King Street (rebuilding 1908) PREMISES † 16 King Street [1864-1912] • 12 York Place [residence 1865-1872] • 24 York Place [residence 1873-1886] • 6 Stanford Avenue [residence 1887-1892] (Lockyer & Son) † 49 King Street [workshop 1891-1904] † 45 King Street [workshop 1899-1904] † 45-49 King Street [workshop 1905-1907] |
| LONG, Edgar Wallis 1870-1962 |
Architect. Born in Maidstone, son of a publican, he was an auctioneer's clerk before training as an architect. He became a partner in Loader & Long in 1895, the year of Loader's death, and from 1899 had his own practice. He joined the Royal Brunswick Masonic Lodge in 1905. He left £10,590 2s. | WORK • 144, 146, 148 Balfour Road • Cransley Lodge, 32 Dyke Road Avenue (1902) † Woodingdean open air swimming pool, Old Parish Lane (1904). • Earlsmead, 42 Dyke Road Avenue (1912) • The Royal Oak, 46 St James's Street (rebuild 1932) See also Loader & Long PERSONAL • 105 Gloucester Road [residence 1895] • 1 Compton Road [residence 1896-1898] • 54 Old Steine [practice 1899-1902] • Hill Side, Millers Road [residence 1899-1902] • 40 Marlborough Place [1904-1915] • 56 East Street [1920] • 10 Buckingham Road [residence 1921-1962] |
| LONG, Edward Wallis | Architect at 6 Old Steine, LRIBA 1925. | |
| Long & Kentish |
Architectural firm. Partnership of M J Long (1939-2018) and Rolfe Kentish (b.1954), formed in 1994. |
WORK • Aldrich Library, University of Brighton, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road • Westlain House, University of Brighton Falmer Campus, Village Way (1999) • Falmer Library, University of Brighton, Village Way (2001) |
| LUTYENS, Sir Edwin OM RA 1869-1944 |
Architect. | WORK • Former studio, Whiteway Lane, Rottingdean • Hove War Memorial, Grand Avenue (1921) • White Lodge, 40-40a The Cliff, Roedean (alterations, 1924) |
| LYNN, George 1806-1891 |
Builder, stone mason and brickmaker. Born in East Grinstead. In 1851, then 44 and widowed, lived next door to James Charnock Simpson and employed 50 men. By 1871 his workforce had grown to 120 men and 10 boys. His sons, George and Charles, joined the business. His wife died in 1851; his sister-in-law was a visitor to his home in 1871 but was still there 10 years later. He left £4,471 11s 3d. [Note: There were two George Lynns born in East Grinstead around the same time and both became builders. The other one stayed there.] |
• WORK See George Lynn & Son(s) PERSONAL • 168 Western Road [residence 1841-1848] • 20 Clarence Square [residence 1850-1877] • 10 Vernon Terrace [residence, deathplace 1878-1891] |
| Lynn, George, & Son(s) |
Builders. Long-established building firm founded by George Lynn [qv above] and joined by his sons George (1835-1904) and Charles (1840-1912). Much of the firm's work inbvolved additions and alterations. The listing of significant work is believed to be complete; some were attributed to George Lynn Jr.. |
WORK • 8-9 Buckingham Road (1870) • 3a York Place (1872) • 132-133 Queen's Road (2 shops) 1874) † Church etc at Home for Female Penitents, Finsbury Road (1874) • Bird [Booth] Museum, Dyke Road (1874) † Unidentified house, probably then 133 Fairways, in Dyke Road (1874) • 138 London Road (shop, 1875) • 42 Market Street (rebuilding 1876) • 27-28 Seafield Road (1876) • 9-10 Seafield Road (1877) † Cottage at Home for Female Penitents, Finsbury Road (1878) • 29-35 Vernon Terrace (1879) • 1 St Aubyns (1879) • 56-56a Ship Street and 2-3 Union Street (4 shops, 1880) • Parsonage for Albion Home, West Drive (1880) • 70 Marine Parade [remodelling 1880] • St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street (additions, 1881) • Mission hall, 82-82a Centurion Road (1881) • Parochial rooms, Centurion Road (1890) • 68-69 Montpelier Road (1890) • St Mark's Schools, Eastern Road (1895) • St Peter's Church, St Peter's Place (parish room, 1903) • 4 shops on east side, Montefiore Road (1903) † Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road (outpatients department, 1903; mortuary 1904) |
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