Charles Beazley Explained

Charles Beazley
Birth Name:	Charles Nightingale Beazley
Birth Date:	1834
Birth Place:	Esher, Surrey
Death Date:	1897
Death Place:	Brentford, Middlesex
Practice:	Beazley & Burrows

Charles Nightingale Beazley (1834–97), was a British architect. His work spans the period 1853–97.

Career

Beazley was articled to William Wardell in 1853 and was an RIBA student 1854–56. In 1856–58 he was an assistant to G.E. Street, who was the diocesan architect for the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. Beazley began independent practice in 1860, and from 1884 worked in partnership with H.W. Burrows. Like Street, Beazley worked on a number of commissions to restore Church of England parish churches and design new ones. In the 1870s and 1880s Beazley worked extensively in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent.^[1] He was made a Fellow of the RIBA in 1880 but resigned in 1897, the year of his death.

Work

• St. Eadburg's parish church, Bicester, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1862–63
• St. Mark's parish church, Cold Ash, Berkshire, 1864–66
• St. Michael & All Angels parish church, Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1875
• St. Mildred's parish church, Acol, Kent, 1879^[2]
• Ellingham, St Clement's Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 1883
• St. Saviour's parish church, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 1884

Sources

• Book: Brodie . Antonia . Felstead . Alison . Franklin . Jonathan . Pinfield . Leslie . Oldfield. Jane. Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, A-K . limited . 2001 . Continuum . London & New York . 0-8264-5513-1 . 146 .
• Book: Pevsner, Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . The Buildings of England

  Berkshire

  . 1966 . . Harmondsworth . 117 .
• Book: Sherwood . Jennifer . Pevsner . Nikolaus . Nikolaus Pevsner . The Buildings of England

  Oxfordshire

  . 1974 . . Harmondsworth . 0-14-071045-0 . 453, 717 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charles Nightingale Beazley Architect : Westgate-on-Sea Heritage Centre : Museum on Isle of Thanet Kent.
2. Web site: St Mildred, Acol . John E. Vigar's Kent Churches . 2013 .