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

2015 Rixon Farm development, Ashton Keynes, conversion of listed buildings and new houses;

2015 redevelopment of Manor Farm, Winterbourne Monkton incl conversion of barns and new houses;

2015-17 modernist two-storey house on edge of Wiltshire village, in garden of Gde 2 listed building;

2016 refurbishment of large brick hipped-roof house of c1778 near Salisbury, permission 2016;

2016-17 oak-framed garden room extension, Wilts;

201? proposed large neo-classical mansion in Wilts 13 bays, stuccoed;

2017 pre-school, Ramsbury;

Website shows Park Rd development North Newnton; extension to brick thatched house near Marlborough; neo-Georgian house, Hants; alterations and cartshed-type garage to village house nr Pewsey; barn conversion, in North Wessex Downs AONB, Wiltshire, weatherboard on brick and flint base; extension to house near Marlborough; extension near Marlborough, timber-frame and boarded wing behind brick thatched house; extension to large brick L-plan house in North Wessex Downs AONB; interior alts stuccoed Late Georgian house at Pewsey; extensions to Victorian brick house with hipped roof, Fyfield House, near Pewsey, rebuilding of single storey wing in style of orangery; new house, banded brick and flint, near Pewsey trad with boarded garages; Glenafon, Ramsbury riverside house replacement for existing, balcony under deep overhanging gable; proposed Empress Way development, Ludgershall; refurbishment flint and brick farmhouse with timber-frame at back, Wilts nr Hungerford; new trad brick house incorporating part of school, Wilts;
FOX, GEORGE E. Architect; hired as decorator by 4^th Marquess of Bath but soon supplanted by JD Crace qv

1873 designed ceiling of State Drawing-room, Longleat; painted by JD Crace; BoE;

1873-4 designed ceiling Saloon or long gallery, Longleat; painted by JD Crace; BoE;
FRAMPTON, GEORGE VERNON MEREDITH Portrait painter known as Meredith Frampton 1894-1984, designed house for himself at Monkton Deverill, inf Emily Lane, wikipedia; RA 1942; son of George Frampton, sculptor;

1938 Hill Barn, Monkton Deverill, plans WSHC F4/760/100 for rather French house with bulls-eye window in hipped roof, signed by JH Jacob qv of Salisbury;

FRANKLIN, HENRY Builder, Warminster; c1847-1935 died aged 88; continued business of William Dutch from 1898;

1905-6 built Fire Station, The Close, Warminser; CH Lawton qv architect;

also built reading room, Christ Church, Sambourne; Longleat estate office, Portway; Warminster Motor Co. Garage George St (before 1905);
FRANKLIN, HENRY JAMES Carpenter Swindon

1899 school WM chapel, Gorse Hill, Swindon; WBR2

FRENCH, ALEC F. Bristol. Architect; LRIBA. Founded major Bristol commercial architecture practice, Alec French & Partners (AF&P), Alec French Partnership (AFP), Alec French Architects (AFA); Mark Osborne joined 1987;

(1935-7 Flats, Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol; SNB, red brick block)

(1937 Halifax Building Soc, 1-2 St Augustine's Pde, Bristol; SNB;

1937-8 The Shoe Inn, The Shoe, North Wraxall; ill Br 24.6.38, walls panelled in Austrian oak; Hayward & Wooster contractors;

1976 Extension County Hall, Trowbridge, Wilts; RIBAJ 86 1979 287-92 in assoc with Sidney H Townrow, county architect;

2008-10 Melksham Oaks Community School, Melksham, £22.6m; website:

2013-14 Springfield Community Campus, Beechfield Rd, Corsham, Wilts; ?Mark Osborne

FRERE, G.E. Engineer, subordinate of IK Brunel who supervised Bath Spa Station 1840 as resident engineer, TEM Marsh qv was his assistant;

FRETTON, TONY Architect Tony Fretton Architects;

2012-14 21-25 Middlemas Green, Pewsey, five houses, AJ 28.11.14, for Baylight developers, £1.1m, landscape by ERA;

FRIPP, SAMUEL CHARLES Architect, Bristol. Pupil of Thomas Rickman, one of the three city surveyors 1840-72, + c1887. GJL. Brunel's assistant at Temple Meads Station, Bristol, SNB, and worked on Keynsham and Bath stations. Partner with Archibald Ponton 1859-65 (F&P) and with WP Saunders, former assistant, from 1882 to c1887. Reported to have done extensive work in Bristol, London, Bridgwater and Clevedon. Ref in SCG 23.3.1839 to SGF 'architect of this city' being awarded a job; read a paper to British Association visiting St Mary Redcliffe church WDP 23.9.64; bankrupt SCG 31.12.1864, and WG 31.12.64; bankruptcy sale BM 3.6.65;
FRITH, C.S. Architect, Salisbury

1839 rest Bishopstone ch near Salisbury; WBR

FULLER, THOMAS Architect, Bath, Toronto, Ottawa. Born 8.3.1823 died 1898 Known as Thomas Fuller Jr., ‘son of Mr Fuller of Bath’, this was Thomas Fuller, carriage maker. Pupil and later partner of James Wilson of Bath, as Wilson & Fuller qv in Bath Directory 1852-4. In 1854 Bath Directory as Thomas Fuller Jr, 13 Vineyards, Bath. Before that, 1848-50, partner with W.B Gingell, also a Wilson pupil as Fuller & Gingell at Werburgh Chambers, Bristol qv. Founder member of Bristol Society of Architects. Furore over Llandovery College contract in Builder 1850 led to Fuller resigning from IBA. Left for Canada about 1857, in partnership with Chilion Jones in Toronto, won Parliamanet Bldngs competition and also 2nd prize for Departmental Bldngs and Government House. 1859-67 office in Ottawa. 1867 won New York State Capitol, Albany NY and joined with other winner Augustus Laver. 1867-81 office in Albany. Became chief government architect of Canada 1881 in succession to T.S. Scott, designed some 70 post offices, about 30 in Ontario, 12 in Quebec. Obituary Br 22/10/1898 p 366. F Boase, Modern English Biography, 1965, 5 372. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Chris Thomas at U of Victoria was working on him, now Dorothy Mindenhall biography 2015;

(1845-7 Anglican Cathedral of St John, Antigua, West Indies Br 1845 602. B Clarke Anglican Cathedrals outside the Brit Isles, pp 79-80; FS 9.10.45 Consec 25.7.48; W Roue of Bristol clerk of works)

(1848-9 Unex des Normal College, Swansea, Glam, F&G chosen WI 2.11.48 from forty designs; Br l849 281 set aside as too expensive; Robert Scourfield has engraving of design)

(1849-50 Llandovery College (F&G) Br 1849 117, tender ABO 1849 222. FS laid Br l850 9, Scandal over contract Br l850 32, 4l, 6l. Pencil sketch in Kingerlee, Llandovery Album 1985 is signed F&G, but ?said to be plans at college signed by Gingell;

(1850-4 Rest Llandingat church, Llandovery, Carms. ICBS 4272 says by F&G but correspondence and completion certificate refer to Gingell only. NLW PZ 4454 is plan of church as proposed signed F&G 1850.

(1850 Cranwells, Weston Park, Bath, Som, villa for Jerome Murch, mayor, copied from Widcombe Manor W&F – Peach Street Lore of Bath 1891)

(1851 Engineering work Bath waterworks, Weston, Bath; RIBA Crozier-Cole

(1852 Design for Cambridge Military Asylum, Kingston, Surrey; RA; W&F)

(1852-4 Assembly Rooms, King St, Carmarthen 1st pr W&F, later attributed to just JW; Façade removed for Lyric Cinema 1935).

(1853-4 WM chapel, Pontypool, Mon; W&F; Br 14.5.53)

(1854 Henllan, Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembs, remodelled for JLGP Lewis by W&F; T Lloyd, Lost Houses of Wales. Dem.

1854 Town Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts; 1855 WBR; with police station and cells; dated 1854; RC church since 1955; advert to architects for plans £5 prize DWG 27.8.53;

(1854 Trinity National Schools, James St West, Bath, 1854 – Notabilia of Bath says by Fuller. APSD Bath says by W&F; Bombed 1942.

(1855 Alts Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; Bath Express 24.11.55)

(1856 Anglican cemetery chapel, Bathwick Cemetery, Smallcombe Lane, Bath. Bath Express 16.2.56; MF;

1855-6 Cemetery, Bradford on Avon, Wilts. First prize in competition 1855; RHH; Br 13 65; WBR, engraving of lodge and chapels from C Rawlings The BoA Pictorial Guide, 1887; T 25.9.55, James Long bldr £1600, masonry to be of same quality as lodge at Berryfield; progressing rapidly TA 14.7.55, opened 8.7.56; GA31 2000;

(1856 ?Vicarage, Christ Church, Montpelier, Bath; dated 1856; attrib, ? same as the Christchurch Cottages.

(1856 Christ Church Cottages, Montpelier, Bath; MF attrib to F&G;

(1857 Weston Police Court and lock-up, Upper Bristol Rd, Bath. BE 31.1.57; T: BN 1857 151; Dem.

(1857 Stothert & Pitt Engineering Works, Lower Bristol Road, Bath; inf H Torrens; Known as Newark Works; MF;

(1859-66 Canadian Parliament, Ottawa; competition, 1859 centre block won by Fuller & Chilion Jones with E and W blocks awarded to Thomas Stent & Augustus Laver. FS 16.4.60, work halted over cost and plans for main block modified 1863 by Fuller & Charles Baillairgé, occupied 1865, officially opened 6.6.66. Burnt in 1916 and rebuilt to different design by John A Pearson and Jean-Omer Marchand, tower completed 1928; Fuller's library remains intact;

(1867-8 New York State Capitol, Albany, NY. First prize 1867, joined with other winner Augustus Laver in 2nd competition and won. Begun 1868, job taken over by Eidlit & Richardson 1875; T Fuller's original design ill in American Architect 15.4.76)

(1882 Post Office, Stratford, Ontario; to design of TS Scott?

Canadian Post Offices at Strathroy, Ont; Lachine, Que; Kitchener; Peterborough; Galt; Hull; Napae; Amherstburg; Smiths Falls; Orangeville; Gananoque)

FULLJAMES & WALLER Architects, Gloucester Thomas Fulljames (1808-74), and Frederick Sandham Waller 1822-95; Waller was articled to Fulljames in 1839 partner in 1846 (F&W), Fulljames and then Waller were Diocesan Surveyors Gloucester from 1832; Waller's son Frederick William Waller qv (1846-1933) joined in 1868 and practice became Waller & Son;

1854 plans alts rectory, Great Somerford, AB; rectory altered 1863 by JH Hakewill qv;

1855-7 Vicarage, Lydiard Millicent; VCH; plans WSHC;
FUTURE SYSTEMS Architects; designed house for Bob Marshall-Andrews MP at Druidstone, Pembs;

1992 shortlisted for competiton, Stonehenge Visitor Centre; BD 28.7.2000;

G2 ARCHITECTS, Paintworks, Bristol, established 2001; designed Rush Hill surgery, Bath;

2004 outline planning Primary Care Centre, Malmesbury, nursing home and sheltered housing for Kennet & North Wiltshire NHS; £18.4 million, strategic site development review and outlin planning; G2 website; opened 23.6.2008 on site of Burton Hill manor the previous Community hospital; Brackley Primary Health Care Property of Bucknell nr Bicester, the developers, website describes £26.5m development incl care home for Order of St john, retirement home for Aspen Retirement Living, GP surgery and Primary Care Centre; contractor Stepnell; architects The Quorum Partnership qv;

GABRIEL & HIRST Bristol see S B Gabriel
GABRIEL, CHARLES HENRY. Architect, 1 Trinity Place, Charing Cross, london, 1849, later Surrey Chambers, Arundel St, London. Designed several Wiltshire churches 1849-57 and report on one in 1866, nothing else known, not apparently related to SB Gabriel qv 1817-65 of Bristol, called of London & Bath in 1857, Gabriel family in Calne may be related but memorial in Holy Trinity Quemerford has no apparent CHG name;

1849 rest Fyfield ch; VCH; D1/61/7/5 plans 1849, rebuilt chancel roof, added N arcade and aisle, £500, new triplet E window with internal columns and small quatrefoil in gable, chancel N wall with buttress like that on S, reuse blocked small 2-lt N window in new n aisle, refix two lancets in chancel, chancel arch to be cut away sufficiently to make a pointed arch; new corbels for chancel roof, repair mullions tower W window, monuments to be placed in tower;

1852-3 Quemerford ch, Calne, Mr Gabriel; Mr Gabriel report on Trinity ch, Calne DWG 11.1.1866; VCH; new church at Calne DWG 10.3.53; consec DWG 24.3.53,

1854 chancel, Yatesbury ch, Wilts; WBR; reopened DWG 4.1.55, Mr Gabriel of London, Mr Mullins of Devizes bldr; plans 1854 D1/61/8/14 take down and rebuild chancel erect vestry, refurbish church; ICBS;

1855 Kington Langley ch, Wilts; BoE; WBR builder Miller; consec Mr Gabriel of London and Calne, DWG 26.5.55 (? consec DWG 26.4.55); E Millar of Seagry builder;

1856-7 Bowden Hill ch, Wilts, for Capt J Gladstone MP of Bowden Park; FS WI 4.5.56 £1600, Mr Gabriel of London; consec WI 30.7.57 stone from Spye Park quarries, £1800, C Gabriel architect, B Mullings contr; Minton tiles chancel; all windows patterned stained glass by Warrington; carving by H Earp of London; BoE and WBR say by SB Gabriel, error; Mr Gabriel of London & Bath; DWG 30.7.57;

GABRIEL, SAMUEL BURLEIGH Bristol. Architect. 1817-65. In 1842 living with parents in Richmond Terrace, Bristol. Built most of commissioners churches in Bristol; father of Edward Gabriel qv. Gomme 434-5. In practice from 1841 with SJ Hicks qv (H&G) to c1850; 1852-6 with JH Hirst (G&H). London practice of Edmeston & Gabriel may have been SBG with James Edmeston 1771-1867 but could have been Charles H Gabriel qv of London; confusion of Wilts churches in 1850s with CHG;

(1841 St John ch, Apsley Rd, Bristol; H&G;

(1842-3 add Tewkesbury Nat School, Glos;

(1843-5 ?Lexden Terrace, Tenby, Pmbs, for John Rees; John Smith qv bldr. Attrib on basis of cheque £2/9/0d from Rees on 22.9.45 to Gabriel. cf research by Douglas Fraser No 3 Lexden Terrace. cf also attrib of Prize House, Tenby, Pembs, to JH Hirst, 1850)

(1844 St Andrew ch, Montpelier, Bristol; H&G;

(1845 Filton ch, Bristol; H&G;

(1847 St Simon ch, Baptist Mills, Bristol; H&G

(1848-9 Royal Hotel and Royal Terrace, Weston s Mare, Som; G&H; SNB completed 1849;

(1848 completed St Mark ch Easton, Bristol, after death of Dyer

(1848 St Michael ch, Two-mile Hill, Bristol; Gomme; SNB;

(1851 alts Chepstow Parsonage, Mon; NLW LL/Bounty/16; minor, bow window; G&H;

(1852-3 Chepstow Infants & Sunday schools, Mon; MM 27.3.52, 20.5.53; G&H;

(1852 Houses, Tyndalls Park, Bristol; Gomme;

(1852 St Jude ch, Lamb St, Poyntzpool, Bristol; 1849 Gomme;

(1854 St Clement ch, Newfoundland Rd, Bristol; G&H; GJL, dem;

(1854 4th pr W of England & S Wales Bank, Corn St, Bristol; G&H; RHH;

(1855-7 Keynsham Schools, Som; comp entry 1855 RHH, G&H; BN 1857 643 by SBG, EE style, school and teacher’s house, Blue Lias and Bath stone, £1200; Temple County Primary School, 1855-7 by SBG, although comp won by H Masters acc to SNB;

1856 ?Bowden Hill ch, Wilts; WBR, BoE; this is error, by CH Gabriel qv 1856-7;

1856 West Kington ch, Wilts; WBR; DWG 23.10.56; WI 23.10.56; entirely rebuilt except tower, nave paved with Peake's metallic tiles, chancel with Minton tiles; E w Bell of Bristol, and SE and small single-light chancel S given by architect, SBG, old pulpit from which Bishop Latimer preached carefully restored, tower arch restored, £830; DWG says high carved oak screen too decayed to be replaced; E w triplet with Purbeck stone shafts; the Latimer window gift of the architect; tower arch a pointed lancet imposts enriched with dog-tooth ornaments restored to its original height and W window lengthened;

(1857 School, Chew Stoke, Som; T: BN 1857 366, school master’s house; BN 1857 468 school and library £676 accepted; SNB;

(1857 School, Farmborough, Som; T: BN 1857 468 parish school, teacher’s house £710;

(1857 School and master’s house, Dundry, Som; BN 1857 151; SNB 1857-8;

(1857 Chepstow Cemetery, Mon; Br 10.10.57; two chapels & lodge)

(1857 houses Wellington Pk and Apsley Rd, Bristol;

(1858-9 rest Compton Martin ch, Som; ICBS; new chancel ws; William Henry York bldr; rest 1858, SNB;

(1860 St Paul's vicarage, Acramans Rd, Bedminster, Bristol, Som; Gomme; SNB;

(1861 St Michael's School, Two-mile Hill, Bristol; but cf 1864;

1860-1 rest Beechingstoke ch, Wilts; DWG 4.7.61; BoE; ICBS; WI 11.7.61 Mr Gabriel of Bristol, whole nave exc part of walls new, angels corbels holding roof, Caen stone pulpit w Devonshire marble shafts, Caen stone font on 8 shafts of grey Devonshire marble; lectern of old oak; new altar; new E window and chancel roof; erected by late rector now Bishop of Brisbane;

(1861 rest Dundry ch Som; 1860-2 ICBS; S aisle; SRO; 1860-1 SNB;

(1861-2 vicarage Winterbourne Down, Glos

1861-3 rest Cherhill ch; reopened DWG 26.11.63; stone pulpit, oak lectern, Minton tiles, exact copy of chancel screen erected across vestry arch, porch rebuilt, font restored; Mr Gabriel of Bristol, Mullings builder; plans October 1861 D1/61/14/9, refit and restore and build vestry; plans of benches, chancel low screen wall with gates, new chancel S door; new credence, sedilia, pulpit;

(1863 Gardiners warehouse, John St, Bristol; Gomme;

1863-4 reblt Manningford Abbotts ch; 1861-4 WBR; BoE; adv for T DWG 26.2.63 reopened DWG 4.2.64;

(1864 London & Lancs Ass, 42 Corn St, Bristol; dem; replaced by EG;

(1864 chancel St John ch, Apsley Rd, Bristol; Gomme;

(1864 St Michael’s school, Two Mile Hill, Bristol; Gomme; but cf 1861;

(1864-6 Ashley House, Ashley Down Rd, Bristol; for Charles Wathen, later Lord Mayor, SNB)
GAISFORD, JOSEPH Builder, 30 George St, Warminster

1882 contr alts Christ Church, Warminster, G Vialls qv archt; WG 18.11.81;

1886-9 sub-contr rest St Denys ch, Warminster; AW Blomfield qv archt; WJ 22.2.89;

1896 and 1901 T: alts Wiltshire Reformatory; unsuccessful; WBR2;

GALE & BANKS builders Lacock. John Gale qv carpenter and George Banks qv mason;

1833 bldrs workhouse, Lacock; £466/5/0d; workhouses website; WBR; George Banks qv mason and John Gale carpenter;

1847 Bridge at Wick Farm, Lacock, WHFT correspondence; this bridge is called bridge No 8, also reference to work on bridges Nos 3 and 5, signed Gale & Banks;
GALE, JOHN Carpenter Lacock see Gale & Banks

1851 estimate roofing conservatory at Lacock Abbey WHF-T correspondence; 27.8.51

1852 estimate for fitting up 2 rooms at Lacock Abbey; £33/15/0d; bedroom and bathroom facing stable yard; 15.5.52l WHF-T corresp;

1854 three new bookcases of deal, Lacock Abbey; new set of 25 drawers;

GALE, JOSEPH Lacock Presumably related to John Gale qv carpenter, of Gale & Banks qv;

1863 WM chapel, The Wharf, Lacock; Br 1865 746;

GALPIN, JOHN Architect, Oxford

1860 Infants school, Cricklade, WI 12.7.60; £350; Mr Jelby of Oxford bldr;

1862-3 rest Cricklade, St Mary ch; CB 1863 183; Br 1863 67;

1863 rest Cricklade, St Sampson ch; WBR; ?error, the 1864 restoration was by Ewan Christian qv;

(1878 hotel and 3 houses, St Ebbe's, Oxford; A 27.4.78;
GAMBIER-PARRY, SYDNEY Architect son of Thomas Gambier Parry of Highnam Glos;

(1886 Altar, St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath, Som; MF;

(1896 alts St Mary ch, Bathwick, Bath, Som; MF; converted sanctuary to Lady Chapel

1912 work, Alderbury ch; WBR;

1914 bridge, Longford Castle, completed 1914; WBR;
GANDERTON, H.S. County Surveyor, Wiltshire County Council in 1936, 1940;

1936 widened bridge, Chilton Foliat; plaque;

GANE & CO. Builders, The Bridge, Trowbridge, Kelly 1867; see Charles & Richard Gane and then Richard Gane Jr;

1863-4 East Kennett ch plans 1863 D1/15/7, new church, plans show simpler design of spire than actually built; £1163 promised by John Mathews of Chieveley;

1869 design for pulpit and reading desk, Melksham ch; WSHC PR/1368/68;
GANE, C(HARLES) & R(ICHARD). Builders, Trowbridge, Wilts. Charles Gane c1791-1866 was carpenter, builder, joiner in Back St, 1822-3 dirs, wife Eliza +1832; brother Richard Gane c1793-1879, memorials to both in Holy Trinity, Trowbridge; Gane Brothers built mills in Trowbridge, KR says Castle Factory, Trowbridge, built by them, 1828, and design survives ‘from a sketch by Mr Gane’ (KR 124). They gave £50 to rebuild of St James ch, 1847. C&RG, surveyors, of Trowbridge built Melksham Workhouse, Semington, to design of HE Kendall, 1838. Richard Gane of C&RG died 1879 at Trinity Villas, Stallard St, Trowbridge aged 86, wife Sarah +1872. Obituary WT 20.12.79 says they built Timbrell Cotts, Trowbridge, as their first building, Trinity Church, Trowbridge, 1838 (A Livesay), St Stephens Schoolroom, Trowbridge (dem), a mansion for W Fowler (probably additions to Springfield, Hilperton Rd, Trowbridge), a mansion for JP Stancomb +1899; worked on Rood Ashton House 1841; and built Capital & Counties (prev North Wilts) Bank, Trowbridge, 1851; Richard Gane Jr (c1839-77) qv of Giles & Gane qv was son of Richard, worked for them after finishing pupilage with CE Giles, then became partner with CE Giles, then emigrated and died in Sydney aged 38 acc to plaque in Holy Trinity.

18?? Timbrell Cotts, 134-8 Bradley Rd, Trowbridge; Tudor-style almshouses. On 1838 TM;

1828-9 Castle Factory, Court St, Trowbridge, for John Stancomb; KR 124; design survives from a sketch by Mr Gane; completed 21.3.29;

1837-8 bldrs Holy Trinity ch, Trowbridge; A Livesay architect; WT 20.12.1879

1838 bldrs Workhouse, Semington, for Melksham Union; HE Kendall archt; WT 20.12.1879

1851 North Wilts Bank, 62 Fore St, Trowbridge; after 1877 was Capital & Counties Bank, obit WT 20.12.1879; after 1924 was Nat Provincial, now Natwest Bank; KR says not built for north Wilts;

1856ff Studley Mill, Trowbridge; KR 133, for J & T Clark; 1860 DoE; power loom shed added 1865 and a further 3-storey block before 1877;

1860 Ashton Mill, Trowbridge; KR 116; for Brown & Palmer of Courts Mill; TA 21.5.60;

1860 ?woollen factory, Polebarn Rd, Trowbridge; WBR; ?error from BoE;

1862 ?Court Street Mill, Trowbridge; WBR; ?error from BoE;

1863-4 East Kennet ch, Wilts; WBR; opened 19.4.64 paid for by Mathews family; consec DWG 21.4.64; a first report DWG 21.4.64 said plans drawn by John Mathews of Chieveley the patron, but plans D1/15/7 1863 are signed Gane & Co, Trowbridge, they show a slightly simpler tower and spire design than actually built;

1868 rest Coulston ch; WBR;

GANE, K.

1824? design for pulpit and box pews, Westbury ch; ill in church guide;

GANE, RICHARD Architect. c1839-77, born Trowbridge, son of Richard Gane Sr partner in Charles & Richard Gane qv builders Trowbridge fl 1828-60. Charles Gane carpenter, joiner, builder of Back St, Trowbridge in 1822-3 dirs; Charles died in 1866 aged 75, Richard Gane Sr died in 1879 aged 86, mon in Holy Trinity, Trowbridge. Richard Gane Jr pupil of CE Giles qv, then in London, then joined father in building trade in Trowbridge as Gane & Co. When Giles was ill Gane bought a partnership with him and for two years operated as Giles & Gane (G&G) qv. Gane finally bought Giles out completely c1876. Then according to Giles' autobiography he ‘signally failed not having head for responsibility he became a drunkard and going to Australia died there at Sydney of drink and despair’. Emigrated to Australia 1877 and died on arrival, monument in Holy Trinity says aged 38.

1863-4 East Kennet ch, Wilts; WBR; opened 19.4.64 paid for by Mathews family; consec DWG 21.4.64; a first report DWG 21.4.64 said plans drawn by John Mathews of Chieveley the patron, but plans D1/15/7 1863 are signed Gane & Co, Trowbridge, they show a slightly simpler tower and spire design than actually built;

1868-9 ?rest Steeple Ashton ch; G&R; 1868 WBR; WBR suggests they 'may have worked with Henry Clutton who did overall design 1853, unlikely, Clutton rebuilt chancel; new seating 1868 and removal of W gallery and unblocking tower arches, and new tower screens; KR village guide; ICBS application in 1872 says chancel had been rebuilt 1855 and that ‘the West End … was most substantially repaired & refitted with open seats of oak’ in 1869. G&G named in ICBS application 1872-3 no info if they were involved before but presumably responsible for 1869 work.

(1869 rest chancel Hemington ch, Som; SRO D/D/Bbm/162 add vestry;

1869 reps chancel, Westwood ch and rectory barn and cottage; faculty WSHC D/1/11/192; Richard Gane Jr; minor repairs to chancel roof, new roof to rectory barn and alts to labourer's dwelling at rectory; signed Richard Gane Jr Trowbridge;