A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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1869-1947
Born in Brighton, son of a railway wagon inspector turned publican. Architect's assistant (1891).
• 2, 4-12 (even), 14-36 (even), 43-83 (odd), 56-70 (even), 91-97 (odd), 111-115 (odd) Whippingham Road (1895-1900)
• 30-74 (even), 47-59 (odd), 73-87 (odd), 76, 78, 82-88 (even), 91-105 (odd) Brading Road (1898-1901)
† 22 Carlton Hill (1899)
• 19-25 Millers Road (1899)
• 218, 220, 224-230 (even), 277-295 (odd), 329-341 (odd), 343 Ditchling Road (1899-1903)
• 161-165 Upper Lewes Road (1899)
• 2, 4 Balfour Road (1899)
• 14-32 (even) Riley Road (1901)
• 43 Surrenden Road (1901)
• 1, 3, 36-74 Osborne Road (1902)
• 46-56 (even) Lowther Road (1902)
• 26-32 (even) Hollingbury Road (1903)
• 22, 25 Harrington Villas (1903)
• 4 shops, Coombe Road (1905)
• 1 pair of semi-detached houses on north side of Lawrence Road (1910)
PERSONAL
• 10 Islingword Road [childhood home 1871]
• New England Inn, 10 New England Road [childhood home 1881]
• 43 Preston Road [1891-1912]
• 103 Ditchling Road [residence 1911-1947]
Based in London.
• Chapel Royal, North Street (1793)
1828-1895
Member of a family of Brighton artists, grandson of Edmund Scott. He attended Rev John Underwood's school in Church Street. He practised alone until he formed partnerships with former pupils R S Hyde (1874-1882) and F T Cawthorn (1882-1895). He lived in Russell Square 1861-1895 with his aunts Maria Brookbank and Emily Scott, a portrait artist. He was executor of his aunt Emily's will, inheriting the house. He left £2,354 2s 8d. Away from Brighton he designed St Paul's Church, Southampton (1862).
• St Nicholas' Church School, Lock's Hill, Portslade
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road (1864)
• school, 30 (now 33) Southover Street (1871) now Hanover Community Centre
• St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (1871-1884)
> See also Scott & Cawthorn
> See also Scott & Hyde
PERSONAL
† 23 Cannon Place [family residence 1828-1859]
• 8 Pavilion Buildings [practice 1854-1859]
• 41 Russell Square [residence 1861-1895, renumbered 31 in 1872]
1828-1895
SCOTT, John Oldrid
1841-1913
George Gilbert Scott. Architect.Highly prolific (over 800 buildings, including St Pancras Station, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Albert Memorial), nicknamed 'Great' Scott. Born into an ecclesiastical family and inspired by Pugin to work in the English Gothic Revival style, He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Among his pupils were G F Bodley, George Somers Clarke and his own son John Oldrid Scott. His grandson, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960), designed the K2 red telephone kiosk, of which a number are protected by Grade II listing in Brighton and Hove.
John Oldrid Scott. Architect.
Son of Sir George Gilbert Scott. In practice from 1860.
• Brighton College, Eastern Road (1848-1849, principal's house 1854, chapel 1859, hall 1863)
† Brill's Baths, East Street
• Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street
• St Margaret's Church, The Green, Rottingdean (south aisle, restorations, 1856)
WORK (John Oldrid Scott)
• St Philip's Church, New Church Road, Hove (1894-95)
1855-1928
Born at East Stonehouse, Devon, son of a draper. He was Hove borough surveyor 1886-1928 and additionally appointed borough fuel overseer in 1918. Two of his five sons died in infancy and two were killed in action in France during the First World War; the remaining son was also a civil engineer, practising in Hove.
• Hove Recreation Ground, Old Shoreham Road (layout 1891, pavilion 1892)
† Hove Electricity Works (oversight 1893)
PERSONAL
• 1 Pelham Square [boarding 1881]
• 29 Hova Villas [residence 1891]
• 44 Hova Villas [residence 1901-1928]
Partnership of E E Scott and F T Cawthorn between 1882 and 1895.
• Drill Hall, 76 Church Street [1890] now an antiques warehouse
• The Vicarage, 133 Ditchling Road [1894]
• 22 Florence Road [1895]
† St Saviour's Church, 95 Ditchling Road [1895-1900]
• Hartington Hotel, 41 Whippingham Road [1896]
PRACTICE
• 46a Regency Square [1883-1890]
• 170 North Street [1899]
Partnership of E E Scott and R S Hyde between 1874 and 1882.
† St James's Church, Chapel Street (1874/75 replacement; demolished 1951)
• 19-21 Franklin Road (1877)
• 104-106 Edward Street (shops, 1880)
• 1-69 (odd), 6-78 (even) Newmarket Road (1880)
• 1-15 (odd), 2-18 (even) Round Hill Street (1880)
• St Matthew's Church, Sutherland Road (1880)
• 110-111 Lewes Road (1880)
† All Souls Church, Eastern Road (alteration)
• Chapel Royal, North Street (alteration)
• Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Washington Street (alteration)
• St John's Church, Carlton Hill (alteration)
PRACTICE
• 46a Regency Square [1877-1882]
• 32 Russell Square [1882]
1850-1926
Born in Storrington. Builder's general foreman (1881, as Henry Thomas Scutt). Prolific designer of houses: 695 planning approvals in Brighton. The principal developments are listed.
• 41 Hove Park Villas (1893)
• 12 houses, bakery, shop, Stanford Avenue (1897-1902)
• 52 houses, shops, Preston Drove (1898-1902)
• 14 houses, stables, Preston Park Avenue (1898, 1902-03)
• 97 houses, Osborne Road (1898-1902)
• 38 houses, Gordon Road (1898,1905)
• 56 houses, 56 houses, Bates Road (1898-99)
• 25 houses, one workshop, Havelock Road (1899-1903)
• 48 houses, Balfour Road (1899-1904)
• 67 houses, Herbert Road (1899-1904)
• 41 houses, Hythe Road (1899-1900)
• 7 houses, Loder Road (1899-1900)
• 2 houses, East Drive, Queen's Park (1900)
• 5 houses, Lowther Road (1901)
• 36 houses, Ashford Road (1902)
• 4 houses, York Grove (1902)
• 25 houses, Seville Street (1902-03)
• 8 houses, Coronation Street (1903)
• 13 houses, Hartington Road (1903)
• 13 houses, Ewhurst Road (1903,1907)
• 7 houses, Maldon Road (1904)
• 15 houses, laundry and stable, Hollingdean Terrace (1905)
• 22 houses, stores and workshop, Dyke Road Drive (1905-06)
• 14 houses, Dyke Road (1906)
• 30 houses, Stanmer Park Road (1907)
• 13 houses, Franklin Road (1923)
PERSONAL
• 8 Caledonian Road [residence 1881]
• 14 or 14a North Street [practice 1899-1901]
• The Beeches, 100 or 94 Stanford Avenue [residence 1897-1921]
• 5 Belmont [flat, final residence 1924-1926]
1910-2001
British-Swiss architect (real name Reuben, aka Robin), noted for tower blocks, especially in London, where his firm designed more buildings than Sir Christopher Wren. The Rival Lamps factory on the Hollingbury Industrial Estate was one of his practice's earliest works, before he became a committed proponent of the modern movement.
The Rival Lamps factory on the Hollingbury Industrial Estate was one of his practice's earliest works, as he became a committed proponent of the modern movement.
† Rival Lamps factory, Crowhurst Road, Hollingbury (1949, demolished 2018)
• Sussex Heights, St Margaret's Place (1966-1968)
† Metropole Hotel Exhibition Halls (1966, demolished 2022)
• Chartwell Court, Russell Square
• Bedford Hotel and Bedford Towers, King's Road
1826-1897
Born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,son of a tailor, he is identified in 1841 as an architect—at the age of 15! he lived mainly in London and practised only briefly in Brighton.
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 10 Waterloo Place [1884-1886]
1775-1837
He was one of the town commissioners around 1822-1829 and a member of the waterworks committee. The building firm of Shrivell & Co was at 42 Portland Street in 1832. He gave the name to Centurion Place for personal reasons.
• Centurion Place
PERSONAL
• 4 Wellington Place [business 1822] • 6 Mighell Street [residence 1822-1832]
1860-1947
Born in Brighton, son of a tobacconist and cigar importer. He moved to Wokingham, Berkshire.
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 46 Queen's Road [1882-1883]
• 96 Ditchling Rise [1884]
1790-1876
SIMPSON, Thomas
1825-1908
SIMPSON, Sir John William KBE PRIBA
1858-1933
SIMPSON, Gilbert Murray FRIBA
1869-1954
Born in Bolton, Lancashire. He retired to Jersey, where he died.
Thomas Simpson. Prolific architect and surveyor.
Born in Muswell Hill, London (not Scotland as sometimes stated). Articled to his uncle, James Simpson. Architect to the Brighton and Preston School Board and Hove School Boards. His first and third sons became architects, his second was a surgeon.
Sir John Simpson [right]. Architect.Elder son of Thomas Simpson, articled to his father, then attended Royal Academy Schools. FRIBA 1900. President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1919-1921. Partnership with Maxwell Ayrton from 1910 to 1928; designed Wembley Stadium. Knighted for his work on the Empire exhibition site at Wembley.
Image: Portrait by Arthur Stockdale Cope [Royal Academy Illustrated 1920]
Gilbert Simpson. Architect.
Youngest son of Thomas Simpson. Articled to his father and remained as his assistant. ARIBA 1893 (proposers included Thomas Lainson and Lacy Ridge; FRIBA 1921. Own practice from 1890 at 16 Ship Street. Architect and surveyor to Brighton Education Committee for 47 years. Retired 1945.
† Farman Street School
WORK (Thomas Simpson)
† Salem Strict Baptist Chapel, Bond Street (1861, demolished 1974)
• Wagner almshouses, Lewes Road (1861)
• Congregational Chapel, Belgrave Street
† Dials Congregational Church, Clifton Road (1870, demolished 1972)
† Hanover Terrace Board Schools (1874, demolished 1999)
† Fairlight Place Board Schools (1875, replaced 1932)
• Pelham Street Board Schools (1875, replaced 1932)
† MiddleStreet Board Schools (rebuilding 1876, replaced 1973)
• York Place Board Schools (1883)
¶ Connaught Road Board Schools (1883)
† Circus Street Board Schools (rebuilding 1884)
• 74, 76 Old Shoreham Road (1886)
† Park Street Board Schools (1889)
• Ditchling Road Board Schools and caretaker's house (1890)
• Elm Grove Board Schools and caretaker's house (1892)
• Stanford Road Board Schools and caretaker's house (1892) Now Stanford Junior School
• St Luke's Terrace Board Schools and caretaker's house (1901)
and much more to be added.
WORK (Sir John Simpson)
• Roedean School, Roedean Way (1898)
† Union Congregational Church, Queen Square (1899, not built)
• Brighton War Memorial, Victoria Gardens (1922)
WORK (Gilbert Simpson)
• Ronuk Hall and Welfare Institute, Victoria Road, Portslade [1927, now Portslade Town Hall]
PERSONAL (James Charnock Simpson)
• 13 Richmond Street[1834-1843]1
• St George's Place [residence 1837-1843]
• 58½ West Street [practice 1848-1864]
• 19 Clarence Square [residence 1848-1864]
1Le1839, Poll Book, 1834,1841
PERSONAL (Thomas Simpson)
• 17 Chatham Place [residence 1858]
• 8 Prince Albert Street [practice 1858-1859]
• 16 Ship Street [practice 1859–end of career]
• No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 17 Ship Street
1880-1959
Son of an Aberdonian farmer. He was articled to Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and studied at Aberdeen School of Art. After working in London for, among others, Arthur Conran Blomfield, he became assistant to Edmund Wimperis in 1911. The two were in partnership after the Great War, the firm becoming Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie in 1925. Simpson retired in 1951.
See Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie
1923-1999
SKELTON, Helen Mary
1952-
Nephew and apprentice of Eric Gill, his studio was at Streat from 1950.
Mary Skelton Letter carver and sculptor.
Daughter, apprentice and partner of John Skelton.
• Brighthelm, North Road
1792-1828
He married Mary Ann Lower at St Nicholas' Church in 1819. In 1824 'premises on the north side of Union Street'—the Meeting House (Union Chapel)—were conveyed from James Vallance to Slater and trustee1; this coincided with the strta of the incumbency of John Nelson Goulty. The George Street Brewery was part of his estate1.He was buried in the family vault under the Hanover Chapel2 and left 'under £1,500'.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 29 George Street, Brighton (1824)
1ESRO 2409/2/830 (5 May 1824)
2ESRO ACC11365/8-10 (16-18 Apr 1829)
3Hanover Chapel General Burial Ground [PRO RG4/3134]
1854-1909
Born in London.Smale & Son in 1903, Smale & Sons in 1905.
• 33,34,35,36 Westbourne Villas (1884)
• 30,31,32 Westbourne Villas (1885)
• 83,84 Sackville Gardens (1891)
• 18,20 Sackville Gardens (1892)
• 25-33 Fonthill Road (1892)
• 55 Hove Park Villas (1892)
• 53 Hove Park Villas (1895)
• Fonthill Road (10 houses, west side, 1896)
• Wilbury Gardens (2 detached houses, east side, 1896)
• 82,84 Fonthill Road (1898)
• 29-37 (odd) Linton Road (1904)
• Mission Hall, 40 Payne Avenue (1905)
PERSONAL
• 40 Newtown Road [1887-1910]
• 35 Westbourne Villas [1891]
• 2 Hove Park Villas [1893-1902]
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 1 Castle Square [1901]
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 22 Buckingham Place [1856]
1839-
He was the in-house architect for Wiilliam Willett from c1880 to 1883 (his successor in that role was Harry Measures) and as such may have worked on houses in The Drive. His best-known work is in the Mayfair district of London, notably Mount Street, where he was a developer as well as architect in the later 1880s. His sons Edward (1865- ) and Ernest (1866- ) were both assistant architects in 1901 and one of them is likely to be the E Smith above.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 163 Marine Parade [residence 1901-1911]
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 1 Castle Square and 47 Western Road, Hove [1899]
1892-1976
Russian-born; in the firm of Coleridge, Jennings & Soimenow, from which he resigned in 1935. Naturalised British citizen 1931.
• Courtenay Gate (1934)
1836-1924
Born in Wakefield and trained in London, who designed numerous county court houses around the country. He emigrated to Canada in 1883, moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1888 with offices there and in Vancouver.
• County Court House, Church Street (1868/69)
1907-1976
Architect. Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, where he later lectured (even while still a student) and in 1928-29 in the office of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Noted for the Sea and Ships Pavilion at the Festival of Britain (1951), Coventry Cathedral (1956-1962).
• Campus design for University of Sussex, including Falmer House (1960ff)
1817-1869
Born in St Marylebone, Middlesex, son of a brandy merchant. He spent most of his life in London and had a practice in Brighton briefly, apparently ended when he was admitted to the debtors' prison in London in July 1848. Later described as a builder or builder's clerk, he was declared bankrupt in February 1863.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 3 Queen's Road [1848]
• Prince's Terrace [1848]
1876-1939
Son of a railway labourer (later carman). Walter worked as a post office messenger boy (c1891-1893). Articled to Robert W Pollard 1893-96, assistant to Pollard 1896-98; assistant to F W Cawthorn from 1898. Cawthorn proposed him for LRIBA 1911.
• No work identified so far
PERSONAL
• 27 (later 43) Viaduct Road [childhood home]
• 11 Semley Road [residence 1911]
1825-
STENNING, John
1831-1897
Henfield-born, partner in WA & J Stenning [qv] with his brother John [qv].
John Stenning. Bricklayer and carpenter.
Bricklayer (1851-1861); carpenter master (1871), builder (1881-1891). Henfield-born, partner in WA & J Stenning [qv] with his brother William (1823-1870).
• No work identified so far.
PREMISES (John)
• 19 Lennox Street [1851]
• 31 Guildford Terrace [1861]
• 57 Lewes Road [1881]
• 54 Lansdowne Street [1891]
Employing 42 men and five boys (1881).
• 5-8 Washington Street (1862)
• 12,13,14 Edinburgh Street (1865)
• 113-147 Upper Lewes Road (1869)
• 33-34 North Road (1870)
• 10 houses in Park Crescent Road (1871)
• 9-23 Caledonian Road (1871)
• St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (1872-74) • 160-163 Lewes Road (1874)
• 28-33 Upper Lewes Road (1877)
• 2-3 and one more Wakefield Road (1877)
• 2-24 (even) and 23-37 (odd) Round Hill Crescent (1878)
• -27 Luther Street (1879)
• 24-29 Wakefield Road (1880)
• 181-189 (odd), 279, 293 Queen's Park Road (1880)
• 47, 60 Lynton Street (1880)
• 65 Arnold Street (1880)
• 40 Baxter Street (1880)
• 7-15 Mayo Road (1880-1881)
• 16-20 (even), 22-56 (even), 33-45 (odd) Richmond Road (1881)
• 1-8 Elder Row (1882)
• 58,73,75,77 Round Hill Crescent (1883)
• 11,13 Ashdown Road (1883)
• 7,9,11,13 Robertson Road (1885)
• 12 Elm Grove (1885)
• 5 Islingword Road (1886)
• 1 Maldon Road (1892)
• 8 St James's Avenue (1893)
• 30 Belle Vue Gardens (1901)
• 45,47,49,51 Osborne Road (1902)
PREMISES
• 57 Lewes Road [1881]
1880-
Born in Rotherhithe, then Surrey. Specialist in cinema and theatre design. Joined the firm of Norfolk & Prior prior to forming his own practice in south London by 1920.
† Astoria Cinema, 13 Gloucester Place (1930, demolished 2018)
See also R Toms & Partners.
• Dukes Lane (1979)
1869-1947
• St Augustine's Church, Stanford Avenue (1896-1913)
Apparently only briefly active in Brighton.
• No work identified so far
PRACTICE
• 69 Ship Street [1856-1858]
1829-1830
Short-lived partnership of Thomas Ball Stroud and Henry Mew who took over the businesses as builders and surveyors of John Pratt of Mighell Street and the late Charles Lynn of Bedford Square1. The partnership was dissolved in July 18302.
• Central National School, Church Street (1829, demolished 1971)
PRACTICE
• 35 Mighell Street [1829-1830]
1Brighton Gazette 23 April 1829
2Brighton Gazette 12 August 1830
1827-1894
Trained in London under his father (also Richard Suter). Employed four clerks in 1861. Emigrated to Brisbane, Queensland by 1865, where he established a (briefly) fashionable practice, designing schools, Jimbour House on Darling Downs (see Sir Ralph Darling) and St Mark's Anglican Church. He moved to Melbourne in 1876 and became a Catholic Apostolic priest.
• Brunswick Square and Brunswick Terrace (drainage and outfall, 1862)
PERSONAL
• 3 Prince's Place [1858-1859]
• 1 Lansdowne Terrace [1861]
† London Road Chapel, Ann Street (1830, demolished 1976)