Wiltshire architects abington, L. J. ?not an architect

1927 organ-case, stalls and pulpit, Great Somerford ch; rails similar 1937;

1927 lighting scheme, Lacock ch; faculty WSHC

1927 alts Hannington ch for Claude Fry; replaced Freke memorials on nave walls, painted pine seats dark brown, reset Freke memorial slabs in chancel floor each side of altar, removed coloured tiles; returned effigy to church, on new base; CB Fry, history of Hannington;

1927-8 cottages, Spye Park, Bromham; WSHC 2512/120/7; undated plans for cottage 2512/320/23;

1927-8 work Malmesbury Abbey, replaced in stone the two W vaults, cleaned interior, lowered floor, replaced pews with chairs, furnishings in neo-Renaissance style, pulpit, stalls, lectern, parclose screens; AB; also presumably organ case for organ moved from W end; HGM; £14000; papers 1927-9 WSHC 2512/100/9;

1928 alts Hannington Hall for Claude Fry, panelled dining-room with neo-Jacobean polaster ceiling; also designs for a sundial outside, WSHC 2512/320/49; WBR gives 1924?; cf also plans by George Oatley in 1922 for Fry;

1928 screen to SE chapel, Corsham ch; guide book; copy of NE chapel screen;

1928 alts Brownston House, Devizes WSHC 2512/120/20;

1928 Spicer memorials, Chittoe churchyard; headstone to JEP Spicer +1928 and another simpler headstone 2512/320/24

1928-9 vicarage, Crockerton, WSHC 2512/320/43 for Rev Dr JL Morice;

1928-34 rest Foxley ch; WSHC 2512/100/5; screen and pews;

1928-33 work Devizes St Mary ch; WSHC 2512/100/14;

1929-31 parsonage, Kington Langley; plans 1929 WSHC 2512/320/57; for Vincent Thornely Taylor of Steinbrook; G3/760/731; 1931 vicarage, WBR; new house, gabled, mullioned; WSHC 2512/ 120/21

1929-63 work St Paul ch, Swindon; papers WSHC; dem;

(1929 altar and alts Twyning ch, Glos; faculty GRO

(1929-34 alts Bath Abbey, Som; four statues on E wall 1929-39 carved by F Brooke Hitch from design by AG Walker; bronze wall cross, altar and gate; 1930 fittings Prior Birde’s chantry; MF; WSHC 2512/110/13;

1929-33 rest Bradfield Manor, Hullavington; WSHC 2512/120/14 (missing 2016); plans for HL Story (for whom HB made plans for Burton Hill House, Malmesbury, 1924) may never have been executed; WSHC 2512/320/52 inc unex porch;

(1929 Lady Chapel, N transept, Christ Church, Frome, Som; SNB;

1929-38 rest Edington church, Wilts; WBR2; proposed screen to nave altar 1934 WSHC PR/ 2222/84; papers 1929-38 WSHC 2512/100/7; screen to nave altar designed by CE Ponting c1900 with reredos painted by Eleanor Warre qqv;

1930 roof repairs, Calne ch; HB made a report on decay of oak timbers from contact with lead roofing and recommended repair and recladding in asphalt, faculty WSHC 1930;

1930 repaired W window, Biddestone ch; AB;

1930-1 alts Cottles, Atworth; WBR2; WSHC 2512/120/11;

1930-2 work Ogbourne St Andrew ch; WSHC 2512/100/10;

1930-2 reports Avebury ch; PR/1569/18; WSHC 2512/100/8

1930-3 work Bishops Cannings ch; WSHC 2512/100/16;

1931 scheme to rebuilt Surrendell Manor, Hullavington, demolished 1914, including survey drawings by OS Brakspear; WSHC 2512/ 320/53;

1931 proposed underpinning tower Christian Malford ch, PR/1710/36; in 1930 proposed complete rebuild acc to letter from Oswald Brakspear 1939 but decided on underpinning, spec for repairs 1931;

1931 rest Preshute ch; WBR;

1931 rest Old Manor, Beanacre; DoE; CL 4.12.1937; renovated solar wing to r. and chapel wing behind inserting fireplace; sold in 1914 by Lord Methuen to HB who sold it back to Lady Methuen 1918 and then leased by 1937 to Nestle Co. for manager's house, VCH;

1931 tower screen, Corsham ch; WBR2 carpentry by Downing & Rudman qv; also adjacent stone screen to SE chapel made as copy of C16 NE chapel screen;

1931 work St James ch, Trowbridge; 2512/350/15; report 1928-9;

1932-4 minor alts Rectory, Great Somerford; WBR2; WSHC 2512/120/13; bathroom;

1932-4 work Tithe Barn Bradford on Avon WSHC 2512/120/2; acc to P & I Slocombe, The buildings of Barton Farm, HB was employed before 1914 by Wilts Archaeological soc but only essential work done before war stopped project; in 1917 HB noted the roof spreading and cut off rotten feet of crucks and put in new pads beneath;

1932-3 work Rood Ashton, West Ashton; WBR2; mostly dem; WSHC 2512/120/12; design 2512/ 320/83 1932 for strengthening stairs;

1932-5 work Highworth ch; WBR2; rood screen 1932-3 (AB) gift of Mary Hambidge, presumably also rood-beam and rood above it; E window 1935, consulted on subject of stained glass acc to church guide, redesigned tracery removing EE style E window of 1860s and replacing it in Perp style; WSHC 2512/100/11;

1933 alts Coles Farm, Ditteridge, for William Moger; 2512/320/8, mainly stables, garages; ?unex;

1933 alts Bowood Mausoleum, stone altar, reredos and inscriptions to 5^th Marquis of Lansdowne +1927 and Earl of Kerry +1933; 2512/320/3;

1933-4 work Colerne ch WBR2; repairs NE chapel and organ, two drawings for frontals, PR/ 2830/5; WSHC 2512/100/1;

1933-4 cottage, 3 Stokes Rd, Corsham WBR2; built for the two ladies who owned St Aldhelm's Cottage next door acc to Dr Negley Harte; cottages Stokes Rd WSHC 2512/120/17; for Miss A Tennant JP WSHC 2512/320/41;

1933-6 Cowleaze, Tinhead Rd, Edington; sale advert; WSHC 2512/120/1;

1934 work South Wraxall ch WSHC 2512/100/3;

1934 work Stanton St Quinton ch WSHC 2512/100/4; unidentified;

1934 dovecote, Manor Farm, Stanton St Quintin; WSHC 2512/100/4, ?restored, McCann dates it late C16; also undated plans 2512/320/88;

1934 alts Wellesley Arms, Sutton Benger; 2512/320/89A;

1934-5 work Heddington ch; WSHC 2512/100/12;

1934-6 repairs to vault, Malmesbury Abbey, plaster fell in March 1934 and Sir HB produced plans but died and OSB did work 1934-6 £1000; HGM 15;

1935 SE chapel, Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts; BoE; 1933-5 WSHC 2512/100/2

1935 E window, Highworth ch; removed 1860s window and put in new 5-light window in Perp style also consulted on design of new E window stained glass by Caroline Townshend and Joan Howson, gift of Mary Hambidge; guide;

1938-9 rest Heddington ch; WBR; 1934 acc to VCH;

Undated plans for adds to Scylla Cottage, Ford for HB St Leger, addition of cross-wing, various designs, some dated 1923 WSHC 2512/320/47; small brick cottage at Great Somerford for Rev FH Marley WSHC 2512/320/48; gardens and cottage Little Somerford for Rev RS Brown 2512/320/69; work at Great and Little Somerford churches 2512/300/27; almshouses for Municipal Charity, Devizes 2512/320/45A stone and brick with loggias; alts house at Kington Langley for WT Coleman WSHC 2512/ 320/55; unex house at Kington Langley for WC Coleman WSHC 2512/ 320/56; Liberal Club, Melksham for GP Fuller, but there is a Liberal Club on Bank St, 2512/320/78; alts Restrop House, Purton, unex scheme, one sheet stamped WH Read qv architect 2512/320/82; alts North Wraxall school and Kington St Michael School c1899-1912, 2512/320/84; new house for Brig GH Palmer ?at Trowbridge, 2512/320/92; panelling Conservative Club, Trowbridge 2512/320/93; alts Lamb Inn Trowbridge 2512/320/94; churchyard cross, Colerne; conjectural reconstruction of C9 fragments in the church; plans undated 2512/320/25;

Attributed:

1904 add to Ridge House, Neston, for GP Fuller; DoE list; Tom Brakspear thinks not, no documentary evidence;

1905 addition to The Manor, Winsley; no documentary evidence; ?for – Knatchbull;

Error:

Gastard church, attrib DoE, actually by Edmund Warre 1912;

Priory House, Greenway Lane, Chippenham 1910 attrib by EH is by Walter Rudman qv;
BRAKSPEAR, Captain OSWALD SOMERS Architect, Pickwick Manor, Corsham, Wilts, son of Sir Harold Brakspear qv. ARIBA. Office 1936 27 High St, Corsham, 1945 44A High St; died 1999; much church work in Bristol diocese, also much parsonage work; papers 1938-74 in Wilts RO 2512; list of 331 works runs from 1929 to 1996 WBR2; one of his first jobs was to Georgianise the water-tower at Lucknam Park, Colerne, Wilts (personal comment) ; architect to Malmesbury Abbey from 1934 to 1994; father of Thomas Brakspear qv;

1934-6 repairs vault Malmesbury Abbey planned by HB after plaster fell in March 1934; HGM;

(1935-7 Shoreside, Seaview, IoW; WSHC;

1936 minor int alts, Lucknam Park, Colerne; plans WSHC G3/760/977 , ext to servants' hall;

1937-9 work The Kings Head, Chippenham;

1937 alts Lucknam Park, Colerne, for Capt Eion Merry; plans WSHC G3/760/994; new top stage to water-tower, refaced the adjacent side of the service wing removing buttresses;

1936-8 alts Arnold House, High St, Corsham; WSHC;

1937 Middle Lodge, Lucknam Park, Colerne, neo Georgian, pyramid roofed; for Capt Eion Merry; plans WSHC G3/760/1029;

1938-9 add Bath Lodge, Lucknam, Colerne for Eion Merry; dem;

1942-50 work Village Hall, Yatton Keynell; WCH;

1945 Lady Chapel altar etc, Christian Malford ch PR/1710/36 also repairs to parapet and pinnacles by Downing Rudman & Bent qv builders; Lady Chapel cross, candlesticks and new altar in stone; organ removed to W end N aisle, Times 21.1.46; NWH 25.1.46 £750; plan 1938 section through E wall; also rebuilt SE corner, refers in letter of 1939 to coming out with Sir George Oatley 'who was advising me at the time' and looking at settlement, and Harold Brakspear having suggested rebuilding the tower in 1930; plan 1948 for sanctuary alterations new altar table and rails in C17 style, not there:

1946 work Castlefields, 13 The Green, Calne; and 1960-5; to coach-house 1959-61;

1946-7 work Buckhill House, Bowood;

(1946 horse-shelter, Shipton Moyne, Glos, for Mrs Wood; Glos RO;

1946-7 alts Lilac Cottage, Startley, Great Somerford; WSHC;

1947-74 ff work Sandpits, Gastard;

1947-9 house, Tetbury Rd, Malmesbury;

1947-55 work No 44 High St, Corsham;

1948 altar table and rails, Christian Malford ch; PR/1710/36; C17 style, not there;

(1948 pair of cottages, Bowldown, Lasborough, Glos Glos RO

(1948-53 work on Worksop Priory)

1949-51 work Grove House, West St, Lacock

1949-50 aumbry, St Andrew ch, Chippenham; plans WSHC;

1950 work Coles Farm, Ditteridge; WSHC

1951-3 Christian Malford rectory plans PR/1710/27;

1951-2 parsonage, Lydiard Millicent; plans 1949-52 WSHC;

1951-4 work Godwins House, Berwick St James;

1952-3 rectory, Luckington; hipped,

(1952-3 reps Charlton Adam ch, Som; ICBS;

1953-5 work, house, Silver St, Calne;

(1953-6 Memorial Hall, Sherborne School;)

1955-7 St Peter ch, Penhill, Swindon FS July 1955;

1955-91 work Old Brewery House, Slaughterford; WSHC;

1956 alts Great Chalfield Manor, added bargeboards to CH Biddulph-Pinchard's nursery addition SW, and added two new windows on S side; for C&M Floyd; inf R Floyd; correspondence 1956-93 WSHC;

1956 repairs S aisle roof, St Mark ch, Swindon BRO EP/J/6/SwStM/6;

1956-60 work The Hall, Bradford on Avon;

(195? Boarding house, Sherborne School, Dorset; BoE)

1957 repairs Boyton ch; ICBS; some fittings; plans and corresp WSHC D1/61/106/147; remove Vic glass from 3 chapel S windows, repair wheel window, enlarge Communion table, remove Vic altar rails and low stone chancel screen; possibility of reusing an altar slab from Fisherton?; for Rev Dr RD Richardson; 1955-9 WSHC;

(1957-63 work Triumphal Arch, Castle Hill, Filleigh, Devon; WSHC;

1959 Vicarage, Wanborough, Wilts; WBR; brick hipped, neo-Georgian;

1959 work East Farm, Calstone;

1959 bracket for statue of Virgin, St Peter ch, Devizes D1/61/108/113;

1960 report on Liddington ch; WSHC;

1960 wk Weavers Cottage, Castle Combe;

1960ff alts Old Manor, Beanacre, new porch, dormers, and NE wing for – Awdry; pers inf;

1961 St John ch, Cavendish Sq, Park S, Swindon; by Harold Brakspear acc to BoE and H&F, error; art work by Frank Roper; also church hall;

1961 work Druce's Hill House, Bradford on Avon; WSHC;

1962-4 wk Willow House, Biddestone;

1962-4 cottage in stables, Bolehyde Manor, Allington;

1962-8 work rectory, Calstone Wellington;

1963-8 The Lodge, Westwood House, Westwood;

1964-7 wk Lower Lodge, Bowden Hill;

1965-6 wk The Old Court House, Bratton;

1965-9 wk Manor House, Yatton Keynell; WCH;

1967-70 wk 5-6 Regents Place, Bradford on Avon; WSHC;

1967ff alts Tockenham Court for David Barnes, restored sash windows to library and added a window, removed C18 drawing-room block from angle to rear wing of C17 house and restored mullioned windows to C17 part; added mullioned windows to garden end of 1904 service block; inf David Barnes;

1968 alts to Barton Cottage, Sheldon Manor, Chippenham for Major Gibbs; work at Sheldon Manor 1952-76;

1968-76 new wing Manor Farm, Compton Bassett for JS Reis; plans 2512/150/61; about 1975 acc to VCH;

1970 wk No 6 Combe Head, Giddea Hall, Biddestone;

1970-89 work Green End, The Green, Oaksey; WSHC;

1970-2 wk No 20 The Green, Oaksey;

1971-80 work Masons, The Street, Grittleton;

1971-90 work Southsea Farm, Kington Langley

1972 alts Priory Manor, Kington St Michael; the owner changed the plans and inserted staircase in different position; inf Peter Verity;

1972-86 work Lower Lease, Box WSHC

1972-3 work South Wraxall Manor

1973-5 work London House, Ashton Keynes; remodelling;

1973-77 wk Dower Cottage, Bewley Common, Bowden Hill

1973-88 work Old Manor House, Berwick Bassett; WSHC;

1973-80 Day Care Centre, United Church, Trowbridge;

1974-5 work two houses, Market Place, Castle Combe;

1974-5 returned screen to Great Bedwyn ch; found 1967 in Wiveliscombe, restored 1968 by Ralph Fry workshop Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset, found there by OSB; church guide; rededicated 15.6.75;

1974-83 work Wroughton House;

1975-8 work Corsham Court,

1975-80 work on Waterside Cottages, Castle Combe; five cottages;

1975-80 alts Green Gables, Lowden Hill, Chippenham;

1976-9 work Manor House, Broad Hinton; ?previously Manor Farm;

1976-9 work Bowden Park, Bowden Hill;

1977-9 Jubilee Surgery, Yatton Keynell; WCH;

1977-83 work 24 Church St, Trowbridge;

1978-81 work Woodfolds Farm, The Green, Oaksey; previously altered by Thomas Rayson qv for Gervas & Elspeth Huxley;

1979 work Flintham Cottage, Oaksey;

1979-84 work Hall House, Box;

19?? repairs The Leigh old church; after vesting in Redundant Churches Fund in 1978; guide book;

1980-4 work No 20 Coppice Hill, Bradford on Avon;

1984-9 work Claremont, Linleys, Corsham;

1984-8 work Broughton House, Broughton Gifford;

1985 work Jaggards, Neston;

1985-8 work Monkton Hill WM chapel, Chippenham;

1985-7 work Manor House, Kington Langley;

1985-94 work Thatch, Compton Bassett WSHC 2512/150/212

1986 work Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon;

1986-7 work 14 High St, Malmesbury;

1986-8 work The Court House, Malmesbury;

1986-7 work No 56A The Close, Salisbury;

1988-90 conv barn at Old Manor, Beanacre, for Cilla and William Massie; pers inf;

1988-9 houses in Pound Pill, Corsham; WSHC;

1989-95 work Thatch, Compton Bassett;

1989-90 work The Old Coaching House, The Wharf, Lacock;

1989-92 work The Priory, Priory St, Corsham; for Heywood School;

1992-3 work The Grey House, Little Cheverell;

WSHC has correspondence files over many years per church relating to quinquennials, uncertain how much was actually done: Malmesbury Abbey 1934-94; Devizes St Mary 1934; Brinkworth 1935-90; Luckington 1936-54; Milton Lilbourne 1939; Neston 1939-95; Colerne 1946-50; Ditteridge 1946-94; Yatton Keynell 1946-87; Lydiard Millicent 1947-89; 1948-64 Swindon Christ Ch; 1948-66 Stratton St Margaret; Crudwell 1948-89; Castle Combe 1948-91; 1949-79 Hilmarton; 1949-89 Foxley; 1949-56 Wanborough; Corsham 1950-94; South Wraxall 1950-89; Winsley 1950; West Kington 1951-89; Charlton 1951-93; 1951-91 Blunsdon St Leonard; Hankerton 1951-65; Limpley Stoke 1952-72; Wroughton 1952-94; Ford 1954-5; Easton Grey 1954-68; Studley 1955-61; Boyton 1955-9; Worton 1955-78; Charlton (Pewsey) 1955-65; Bowden Hill 1955-93; Norton 1955-85; All Cannings 1955-86; Broughton Gifford 1956-93; Seend 1956-79; Bishops Cannings 1956-80; Alderton 1956-74; Lea 1956-67; Holt 1956-94; Rodbourne Cheyney 1956-60; Poulshot 1956-86; Devizes St James 1956-63; Patney 1956-85; West Littleton 1957-94; Ashley 1957-92; North Bradley 1957-95; 1957-65 Monkton Farleigh; Marden 1957-88; 1957-82 Etchilhampton; Alton Priors 1957-9; Atworth 1957-82; Knook 1958-65; Dilton Marsh 1958-9; Leigh Delamere 1958-72; Hullavington 1958-75; Leigh 1958-86; Rodbourne 1958-89; Seagry 1958-93; Swindon St Mark 1958-67; Tytherton Lucas 1958-91; Trowbridge St Thomas 1959-82; Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon 1959-73; Slaughterford 1959-90; Saxon church Bradford on Avon 1960-4; Box 1960-93; Latton 1962-86; Draycot Cerne 1962-95; Horningsham 1965-8; Broad Hinton 1968-90; Savernake 1969-80; Tytherton Kellaways 1979-92; Heywood 1976-9; Bulkington 1978-84; Littleton Drew 1980-4; Gastard 1981-94; Compton Bassett 1981-94;

Also files re parsonage work esp for Bristol diocese: Littleton Drew 1948-61; 1949-69 Hullavington; 1949-67 Corston; 1949-64 Brinkworth; 1949-67 Christian Malford; Swindon St Augustine 1949-67; Bishopstone 1949-69; Lea 1949-66; Stratton St Margaret 1949-67; Kington St Michael 1949-63; Bowden Hill 1949-55; Latton 1949-60; Rodbourne Cheyney 1949-69; 1949-68 Lydiard Millicent; Lacock 1949-67; Swindon St Barnabas 1949-68; Cricklade 1949-70; 1950-2 Draycot Cerne; Norton 1950-3; Langley Burrell 1950-64; Ditteridge 1950-67; Chippenham St Paul 1950-67; Yatton Keynell 1952-68; Chippenham St Andrew 1956-66; and many others

BRAKSPEAR, SIDNEY Architect, Corsham. Son of WH Brakspear qv by first marriage, so older half-brother of Harold Brakspear qv in whose office he worked; executor of WHB; inf TB;

1899 Three houses, Bath Rd, Bradford on Avon; plans WRO G13/760/19; for WJ Howell; not built?
BRAKSPEAR, THOMAS Architect, Pickwick Manor, Corsham; son of Oswald Brakspear;

1987 and 1992 small alts service wing, The Ivy, Chippenham, two windows in Coach House openings 1987 and dormer on the Long house 1992; plans in WBR;

BRAKSPEAR, WILLIAM HAYWARD. Architect, c1818-98. Manchester, then 13 Adelphi Terr, London. Father of Sir Harold Brakspear qv born 1870. Firm was Dickson & Brakspear (D&B). Ashton under Lyne ch 1845-8; Rest Bowdon ch, Ches, 1860; rest Wilmslow ch, Ches 1861-5; retired to Corsham possibly because second marriage was to his dead first wife's sister, which was illegal then; Harold was son of 2^nd marriage; Sidney qv and Heywood and a daughter by first marriage, first wife died c1857-60; moved to Corsham 1891, rented Priory House, Priory St, Corsham; buried Corsham;

(1849-54 rest St Mary ch, Bridgwater, Som; ICBS; AEBTD; dated 1850 on rainwater heads; rebuilt S aisle and S transept, new nave and chancel roofs, new baptistery and chamber over inside N porch, new arcade between N tr and chapel to W; pews, stalls; moved Corporation Pew to S transept; Gothic frames for Commandments etc on E wall since removed; new octagonal NE vestry (dem 1902); Wm Shewbroooks qv carpenter, David Bradfield mason;

(1851 St Mary’s Cemetery, Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater, Som; AEBTD; plan in possession of Dr P Cattermole shows one octag chapel, but two were built, both dem;

(1852 St Mary’s Vicarage, Wembdon Rd, Bridgwater, Som; AEBTD; SRO D/Bbm/113; brick, m&t ws; WHB of London; possibly never built, not found;

BRANDT POTTER & PARTNERS Salisbury see Brandt Potter Hare Partnership

1977 refurb banking hall, Lloyds Bank, Salisbury; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92;

BRANDT POTTER HARE PARTNERSHIP, Salisbury John Brandt, Robert Potter and Richard W Hare qv. Partnership formed 1967 when Brandt joined Potter & Hare partnership formed 1956; Kenneth Wiltshire qv born 1929 was a partner; later Brandt Potter & Partners;

1959-61 District Bank, Butcher Row, Salisbury; BoE;

1961 Nos 60-2 High St, Salisbury; BoE;

1964-9 UK Land Forces HQ, Fugglestone, Wilton; BoE1975;

1971 St Paul's Church Centre, Covingham, Swindon; BoE1975 and library; opened 10.7.71;

(1973-4 rep West Buckland ch, Som; ICBS; Kenneth Wiltshire job archt.

1973? repairs Berwick Bassett ch for Redundant Churches Fund, by K Wiltshire; notes in church;

1974-6 rest Amesbury ch; ICBS;

1975 rest No 9 Queen St, Salisbury, Ken Wiltshire; BD 16.1.76; house dated to 1306;

1977 refurb banking hall, Lloyds Bank, Salisbury; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92; Brandt Potter & Partners;

1981-2 reps Allington ch; ICBS;
BRANDON, DAVID Architect 1813-97, articled George Smith in Scotland, partnership with TH Wyatt see Wyatt & Brandon 1838-51; FRIBA; worked on numerous country houses;

1850 Fonthill House, Fonthill remodelled surviving pavilion of Fonthill Splendens for James Morrison; demolished 1921; Italianate style, added storey and Italian tower;

BRENTNALL, CHARLEY Timber framer, Colerne; set up Carpenter Oak & Woodland 1980s; worked with Piers Taylor qv on Colerne Primary School dining-hall and bike shed; also on staff mess-room and timber shed at Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos, 2015-16;
BRETTINGHAM, MATTHEW Junior 1725-1803; HC son of Matthew Brettingham 1699-1769 of Norwich, travelled in Italy 1747-54, built little, employed as agent to Lord Egremont.

1772-6 work Charlton Park, Charlton nr Malmesbury; his only major commission, for 12th E of Suffolk, rebuilt N and E fronts and filled the central court, but unfinished when Earl died and still unfinished in early C19; HC; CL 14-21.10.1933; James Darley qv clerk of works; WBR;

BRETTINGHAM, ROBERT WILLIAM FURZE c1750-1820 Son of Michael S Furs, grandson of Matthew Brettingham Sr, nephew of MB Jr, took their surname; in Italy 1778-92, in practice from c1783; APSD; HC.

c1790 unspecified work at Longleat; APSD; CL 29.4.1949;

BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS Architect, 1902-81, born Pecs, Hungary, involved Bauhaus, moved to London 1930s involved with FRS Yorke and Isokon; 1937 went to teach at Harvard with Walter Gropius, in practice together to 1941; very extensive American practice also did UNESCO Paris, designed the ski resort at Flaine, France with American partner Robert F Gatje;

1966-7 Torin Corp factory, Greenbridge industrial estate, Swindon, with Robert F Gatje; BoE1975; for Torin Corp for whom Breuer designed nine plants, in US, Belgium and Australia 1953-76; AR July 1967 22; facing Drakes Way;

BREWER, WILLIAM, Box. Monumental mason apprenticed to Henry Hill, carver, of Marlborough 1761, IR lists tablets signed by Brewer c1778 to c1836;

(1799 suplied stone and masonry work Dodington park, Glos; IR)

BREWER, WILLIAM, Rudloe Firs, Box. Monumental mason

1853 carved lions, gate piers, Bowood; £120; IR; the four lions now in Lower Terrace gardens;

BREWER, WILLIAM JAMES Contractor Corsham. ?same as William Jones Brewer of Box;

1846-7 tendered unsuccessfully for the N front of Corsham Court 1846, but did demolish Nash N range and excavated foundations 1846-7 for £2,058 as sub-contractor to HC Holland; FJL 145;

BREWER, WILLIAM JONES. Box. ?same as William James Brewer of Corsham;

1834 plans for a building, Tottenham Park estate 3790/2/10/8; by W Brewer;

1835-41 contractor with Thomas Lewis of Bath for E end of Box tunnel; IK Brunel qv and S Yockney resident engineer;

1845 masonry Alderton ch, by James Thomson; J Thomson The church & village of Alderton, 1845; carpentry by John Watts of Chippenham;

1851 contractor for stonework Grittleton House; in accounts only as – Brewer; WSHC
BRIAND, GEORGE Architect,