Joshua Arthur Rodrigues Brandon (9 February 1822, London – 11 December 1847, 11 Beaufort Buildings, Strand) was an English architect and author. Prior to an early death aged twenty-five, his architectural practice (particularly in church architecture) was promising and growing.
With his brother Raphael he designed the new corn exchange at Colchester, Essex (1845); Portswood Chapel (1847) and Christ Church, Southampton (1847) (where he is buried in the churchyard);[1] All Saints' Church, Sculthorpe, Norfolk (1847) and Holy Trinity Church, Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire, for which he accepted the commission in 1846, dying before its completion in 1849.[2]
With his brother he researched three seminal works on Early English architecture:
"serves the one useful and necessary purpose of showing practically and constructively what the builders of the middle ages really did with the materials they had at hand, and how all those materials, whatever they were, were made to harmonise."[3]
. John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon . Arthur . Brandon . An analysis of Gothick architecture : illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice. 1847. ;, ; ; .
. Arthur . John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon . Brandon . Parish churches; being perspective views of English ecclesiastical structures: accompanied by plans drawn to a uniform scale, and letter-press descriptions . 1848. ; ; ;, .
. Arthur . John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon . Brandon . The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages; illustrated by perspective and working drawings of some of the best varieties of Church Roofs; with descriptive letter-press. 1849. .