Charles Beazley

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Charles Nightingale Beazley (1834–97), was a British architect. His work spans the period 1853–97.^[1]

Charles Beazley
Born	Charles Nightingale Beazley 1834 Esher, Surrey
Died	1897 Brentford, Middlesex
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Beazley & Burrows

Career

Beazley was articled to William Wardell in 1853 and was an RIBA student 1854–56.^[1] In 1856–58 he was an assistant to G.E. Street,^[1] who was the diocesan architect for the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. Beazley began independent practice in 1860,^[1] and from 1884 worked in partnership with H.W. Burrows.^[2] 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.^[3] He was made a Fellow of the RIBA in 1880 but resigned in 1897, the year of his death.^[1]

Work

• St. Eadburg's parish church, Bicester, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1862–63^[4]
• St. Mark's parish church, Cold Ash, Berkshire, 1864–66^[5]
• St. Michael & All Angels parish church, Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1875^[6]
• St. Mildred's parish church, Acol, Kent, 1879^[7]
• Ellingham, St Clement's Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 1883^[8]
• St. Saviour's parish church, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 1884^[9]

References

1. Brodie et al. 2001, p. 146.
2. Brodie et al. 2001, p. 308.
3. "Charles Nightingale Beazley Architect : Westgate-on-Sea Heritage Centre : Museum on Isle of Thanet Kent".
4. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 453.
5. Pevsner 1966, p. 117.
6. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 717.
7. "St Mildred, Acol". John E. Vigar's Kent Churches. 2013.
8. Historic England (27 September 2006). "Ellingham, St Clements Road (1391770)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
9. Historic England (22 February 1973). "Church of St Saviour (1350897)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 June 2013.

Sources

• Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, A-K. London & New York: Continuum. p. 146. ISBN 0-8264-5513-1.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England: Berkshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 117.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 453, 717. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.