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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1808-1881
Stained glass maker.Image: Portrait by John Oliphant (c1845) [Shipley Art Gallery]
1896-1973
Born in Steyning Rural District. Diploma in Town Planning and Civil Architecture from University of London. ARIBA 1922. Assistant Town Planning Officer in Nigeria 1928-1931. Partner with his former employer in Thompson & Walker in Brighton 1931-1937, then town planning consultant in Trinidad 1937-1939. He returned to Brighton no later than the late 1940s and died here.
• No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• 3 St George's Place [1935]
• 21 Cedars Gardens [residence 1949-1973]
1849-1931
Son of an architect, noted for more than 50 Roman Catholic churches.
• clergy house, 55 Upper North Street (1890)
• St Joseph's Catholic Church, Elm Grove (west front, 1900-1901)
Partnership of Thomas Ward and Henry Hughes formed in 1857 and continuing after Ward's death in 1870. After Hughes' death in 1883 the company became Curtis, Ward and Hughes.
• Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road [glass]
• Holy Trinity Church, Blatchington Road [glass, 1862-64]
• Church of St Barnabas, Byron Street (glass, 1882)
1874-1956
District surveyor and sanitary inspector to Southwick Urban District Council and surveyor to Steyning East Rural District Council (c.1909-11). In architectural, surveying and engineering practice in Southwick and then taking over the offices of Wm Overton by 1929 with his son (George Walter de la Warr, b.1904) and R Hodgson as Geo Warr & Partners. Initiated in the Duke of Richmond masonic lodge 1910. Left £20,209 14s.
• 1 Eldred Avenue (1920)
• bungalow in The Droveway (1921)
• bungalow in Surrenden Crescent (1924)
• 10 Tongdean Lane (1927)
• Hill Brow (road layout, 1935)
PERSONAL
• 7 Beaconsfield Road [residence 1891]
• 22 Ship Street [practice 1929-]
1856-1937
Born in Clifton, Bristol. Pupil of G F Bodley (whose biography he wrote) and T Garner. Own practice from 1885, he was Master of the Art Workers Guild.
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Dyke Road (1920-22, 1927)
Worked for Pugin but they parted in strained circumstances. The company, taken over by his son, continued for over 70 years.
• St Andrew's Church, Church Road [glass]
1830-1905
Architect.Born in Liverpool and trained in Manchester. Noted for large-scale public buildings of the Gothic Revival, in particular the use of terracotta. FRIBA 1861.
Image: National Portrait Gallery
† Hove Town Hall, Church Road
• Metropole Hotel, King's Road
1857-1936
Born in Stoke Newington, son of a foreign merchant's commercial clerk, he grew up in Croydon and attended Whitgift Grammar School. He moved to Hurstpierpoint and set up in practice in Brighton c1882, coming to live in Brighton c1906. He left £17,840.
• 24 Hythe Road (with stabling 1899)
• 5-7, 13-27 Bigwood Avenue (1904, 1908, 1909)
PRACTICE
† 30 Bond Street [1882-1886]
• 59 Western Road [1887-1889]
† 152 or 153 North Street [1899-1909]
† 53 Prudential Buildings, 143-150 North Street [1910-1915]
• 78 (now 20) Dyke Road [residence 1906-1936]
(1831-1915)
Architect and designer.Born in Oxford. Leading light of the Arts & Crafts movement with William Morris; co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), for which he write the SPAB Manifesto with Morris. Started his own practice in 1858; his early work included the Red House (1859) at Bexleyheath for Morris. In Sussex he notably designed Standen, near East Grinstead, in the Wealden vernacular. He retired in 1901 to Worth, near Crawley, where he died.
• 23 Second Avenue (additions at rear, 1890)
1958-
Artist and sculptorTaught art at Cardinal Newman School, Upper Drive. His statue of athlete Steve Ovett (1987) in Preston Park was stolen. A second version was installed on Madeira Drive in 2012.
Image: National Portrait Gallery
• Statue of Steve Ovett, Madeira Drive (original 1987, replaced 2012)
• Statue of Max Miller, Pavilion Gardens, New Road (2005)
• London Road Methodist Church, London Road (1895, 1910)
1928-2019
Architect.Born in Brighton, graduate of Brighton School of Art and Architecture. RIBA vice-president.
Image: David Robson
• Hove Town Hall, Church Road
• Church of the Ascension, Hillcrest, Westdene
AS WELLS-THORPE & SUPPEL
• Brighthelm Church and Community Centre, North Road (1986-1987)
1899-1976
Born in Plaistow, London, son of a pawnbroker's assistant, who died in 1900, and grandson of a carpenter. ARIBA 1925. He had become a lecturer in building by 1939. He left £26,826.
No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• 29 Kimberley Road [residence 1939]
• 202 Ditchling Road [residence 1976]
1833-1921
Stained glass designer.Working the Gothic Revival tradition. He joined the firm of Lavers & Barraud Ecclesiastical Designers in 1858 and was made a partner in 1868, when his name was added to that of the company. He became sole proprietor in 1880, when the firm became knowna s Lavers & Westlake. His last work was above the south-west door of Church of the Sacred Heart and he died in Brighton.
Image: The Catholic Encyclopaedia and its Makers (1917)
• St John the Baptist Church, Bristol Road (wall decorations, 1890-1921)
• Church of the Sacred Heart, Norton Road
1824-1889
Born in St Pancras, London, son of a silversmith and jewellery manufacturer. He moved to the USA in 1847, married in New York in 1850 and lived and worked in the US throughout the 1850s. Author of two architectural pattern books, Rural Homes (New York, 1851) and Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country: The Villas, the Mansion and the Cottage (New York, 1855, available online) and The Choice of a Dwelling (London, 1871, available online). Described as landed proprietor in Census1861.
• 3 villas in The Drive (1876)
• 2 Harrington Road (1884)
• 202, 204 Preston Road (1884)
PERSONAL
• 40 Albany Villas [1874-1878]
• 1 Church Road [practice 1877-80]
• Brooklyn, 54 Wilbury Road [residence 1881]
• 41 Tisbury Road [residence 1882]
• 62 Cromwell Road [residence -1890]
1823-1885
Pupil of his architect father, John Whichcord Snr. President RIBA 1879-81.
• Grand Hotel, King's Road (1854)
• Queen's (Markwell's) Hotel, 1 King's Road (1870)
1860-1926
Own practice from 1885 based in London. FRIBA 1901 (proposers included J A Gotch).
• Midland Bank (now HSBC, 153 North Street (1902)
• Midland Bank (now HSBC), 80 Western Road [1904, attrib, see also J A Gotch]
1762-1833
WILDS, Amon Henry
1784-1857
Initially a carpenter and then builder in Lewes, forming a building firm with his son Amon Henry Wilds there. He is buried in St Nicholas' churchyard.
Amon Henry Wilds. Architect.
Son of Amon Wilds. Worked with his father from 1806 to 1823 and in partnership with Charles Busby as Wilds and Busby from then until an acrimonious split in 1825. With Rev J N Goulty, his architect son H N Goulty and John Cordy Burrows, he founded the Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in 1850.
Partial list
• 3 Ditchling Road
• Holy Trinity Church, Ship Street (1817)
† Church of St Mary the Virgin, St James's Street
• 6 King's Road (c1925, now part of Queen's Hotel)
• Gothic House, 95-96 Western Road
• Hanover Crescent
• Park Crescent
• Royal Albion Hotel, Old Steine (1826)
• Royal Newburgh Assembly Room, Cannon Place
• Western Terrace
• Bedford Square
• Drinking fountain, Extramural Cemetery, Lewes Road
See also Wilds and Busby
PERSONAL (Amon Wilds)
• 9 Richmond Terrace [residence, practice]
PERSONAL (A H Wilds)
• Priory Lodge, Western Road [residence 1843-1845, later called Gothic House]
• 9 Western Terrace [residence 1848-1851]
Partnership of Amon Henry Wilds and Charles Busby from 1823 to 1825, although it is sometimes difficult to attribute work to either or both. They were brought together by Thomas Read Kemp to design Kemp Town. Although still partners when the Brunswick Town scheme began, Wilds pulled out at an early stage.
Partial list
• Unitarian Chapel, New Road (1820)
• Union Chapel, Union Street (1825)
• 1-2, 11-14 Crescent Place
• 5 Pavilion Parade
• Marine Square
Partnership of Amon Wilds and Amon Henry Wilds formed in 1806, which lasted until 1823.
Partial list
• The Temple, Montpelier Road (1819> now Brighton Girls (school)
1837-1913
WILLETT, William Jr
1856-1915
Apprenticed in 1850 to a stonemason in his birth town, Colchester, and went into business as a monumental mason. An opportunity arose to take over a housing development in Hampstead, London from a bankrupt developer in 1868. From the mid 1870s he started development of the West Brighton estate in Hove. Favoured the Arts & Crafts idiom for his housing. Among the Willetts' in-house architects were H B Measures and J B Tansley. He retired in 1903. He left £2,790 15s 1d.
William Willett Jr. Builder and developer.Son of William Willett, developed the family firm's property development activities, diversifying after his father's retirement into up-market estate agency, brickmaking, welding and mining businesses. He was an ardent advocate of daylight saving time, which was introduced two years after his death. A Willett family memorial is in the churchyard of St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean, although William is buried in Chislehurst. His great-great-grandson is Coldplay singer Chris Martin.
• There is no direct connection with the Brighton Willett family of millers and brewers.
• Willett Estate Conservation Area
∫ Willett's Lane
WORK (as developer)
• 6 sets of stables and Eaton Riding School Eaton Stables (1879) now Eaton Grove
• 51-53, 52-54, 55-79 (odd), 62-74 (even) The Drive (1881-1890)
• 3 Grand Avenue
• 8-11 Grand Avenue
• 12 Grand Avenue
• 7-14 Eaton Gardens (1878)
PERSONAL (William Snr)
• 1 Eaton Gardens [residence 1881]
• 64 The Drive [residence 1913, deathplace]
• Royal Spa Nursery School, Park Hill (1978)
1847-1908
Born in Brighton, son of an attorney and solicitor. Died in Steyning RD.
• 5 terraced houses (32-36?) and 38 Boundary Road, 4 terraced houses (53-56?) in Station Road (1881)
• 2 houses in St Leonard's Road (1881)
• Walsingham Mansions, Kingsway and Walsingham Road (1881)
• 39, 41, 43 New Church Road (1882, 1883)
• 97-101 (odd) Westbourne Street (1882)
• Aldrington National Schools, Portland Road (1888)
• 73 Portland Road (1888)
• 172-178 (even) Dyke Road (1898)
PERSONAL
• 14 Grafton Street [childhood residence]
• 17 Middle Street [practice 1878-1908]
• Carlton Terrace, Portslade [residence 1881]
• 33 Westbourne Street [lodging 1891]
1868-1948
Priest-architect.Born in Hackney, London. Previously a solicitor's clerk, who trained in the architectural practice of Newman & Jacques. He trained for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained in 1909. Rector of St Gregory's, Earlsfield, London (1911) but continued his architectural work. He was an admirer of the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, settled in Rome and remained there during the war but worked in the Vatican's project to hide Jews and help allied prisoners of war. He died in Rome.
Image: Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia Archive
• Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Denis, Church Road, Portslade (1912)
c1845-1906
Started in practice in Kingsbridge, Devon in 1868 but based in Derby by 1883. Noted for nonconformist chapels throughout the country. Holland Road Baptists is regarded as one of his and the period's most important chapels.
• Holland Road Baptist Chapel and Schoolroom (1887)
• Hove Methodist Church, Portland Road (1895-1896)
1896-19??
The architect for the Montague Burton tailoring chain from the early 1920s until c1937, heading the in-house architects' department set up in Leeds c1932. Wilson's work in Brighton was among the earlier examples of his many building designs for Burton.
• 71-74 North Street (1928)
1864-1934
Worked in the architectural practices of John Oldrid Scott and G F Sedding, completing many of the latter's works after Sedding's death. He was founding editor of the Architectural Review, taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and metalwork at the Royal College of Art. He worked in the Arts & Crafts tradition and was a member of the Art Workers' Guild (Master 1917). His work in St Bartholomew's is regarded as among his finest.
• St Bartholomew's Church, Ann Street (fittings 1895-1910)
† Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Church, North Street (1870-71, demolished 1972)
1865-1946
Son of watercolourist Edmund Morison Wimperis and nephew of architect John Thomas Wimperis, in whose practice he qualified in 1889 became a partner by the time of his uncle's retirement in 1896. He became architect to the Grosvenor estate in 1910 and went into partnership with William Begg Simpson in 1913. The partnership won the competition to rebuild Fortnum & Mason in 1924.
Founded in 1925 when Guthrie joined Wimperis and Simpson, who had worked together since 1913. The firm's work includes Grosvenor House, Cambridge Theatre and Winfield House, now the official London residence of the US ambassador. Marine Gate was their last major work. Guthrie and Simpson continued in partnership after Wimperis' retirement; they retired respectively in 1953 and 1951.
• Marine Gate, Marine Drive (1939)
• Queen's (Markwell's) Hotel, 1 King's Road (1870)
PERSONAL
• 23 West Hill Street [residence]
No work identified so far.
PRACTICE
• 34 Ship Street [1910-1912].
1823-1897
Born Guiting/Moreton, Gloucestershire. Worked in Shanklin, Isle of Wight in 1851; moved to Brighton/Hove by 1855.
• West Hove National School, George Street (1857)
• Holy Trinity Church, Blatchington Road (1862-64)
• St Peter's Church, Preston (restoration 1872)
• Newport Lodge, 28a Ventnor Villas (1877)
• Parochial Institution, 56 Livingstone Road (1879)
• 8 Third Avenue (1881)
PERSONAL
• 70 Ship Street [practice 1856]
• 17 Prince Albert Street practice 1864-1875]
• 2 New Road [practice 1877-1886]
• 26 Albany Villas [newly-built residence 1856-1897; renumbered 39 in 1881]
Worked on several Baptist chapels.
† Montpelier Place Baptist Church (1966, demolished 2017-18).
1900-1940
Born in Brighton, son of a paperhanger. LRIBA 1930, when he was a partner in the firm of Clarke & Worsfield at Eastbourne, which was dissolved in 1932. He was sued for divorce by his wife Vera Emily Howard Rowland in 1937; he and his second wife Sybil Nora de la Bere were last seen alive on 27 November 1940 and their dead bodies were found on 4 December 1940.
No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• 5 Islingword Road [childhood home 1911]
• 11 Pavilion Parade [practice, also at School Hill, Lewes]
• 23 Vernon Terrace [residence -1940]
• No work identified so far.
PERSONAL
• Ditchling Road [1839]
• 13 carcases in Sussex Square (c1826)
PRACTICE
• 14 King Street [1824]
1795-1851
Sculptor and medallist.Born in Birmingham, son of an engraver, to whom he was apprenticed. He moved to London in 1816 as assistant engraver to the Royal Mint and became chief engraver in 1828. One of his designs was used as the basis for the penny black postage stamp. He died in Brighton.
• Robertson monument, Extramural Cemetery, Lewes Road