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

1851 Station, Warminster, for WS&W Railway; R Shorto Pictures of Old Warminster 3 48; but also suggested that RJ Ward qv the engineer for the line designed stations at Warminster, Frome, Dorchester & Weymouth; but Frome drawings are actually signed by TJ Hannaford;

1856-8 Station, Chippenham for GWR rebuilt after 1841 station by Brunel proved too small for new line to Warminster, Weymouth and Salisbury; by JHB acc to wikipedia; station had an overall roof until 1899; station also said to have been built by Rowland Brotherhood qv who had railway engineering works at Chippenham; Banbury Station 1850 was similar, ascribed to Bertram or Hannaford;

BERTRAM, WILLIAM 5 Gay St Bath. William Bertram ARIBA and John Mosse ARIBA 1970; William Bertram and Peter N Fell FRICS (WB&F) did neo-Georgian work in Bath and area. Latterly Watson, Bertram & Fell qv with Mark Watson RIBA WB&F; WB&F website incs alts to barn Bradford on Avon, Wilts; rest Grade 2 house near Marlborough, Wilts; rest Gde 2 house in Wilts;

1980 restored barn, Manor Farm Stockton for Michael Stratton; BD 15.8.80, plaque in barn; Ernest Ireland contrs;

1981 restored Cole Park, Malmesbury; DoE; for Sir Mark Weinberg; dated above oriel on N front;

198? Knap Cottage, Seend; 1980s GI;

198? alts Blackland Park, Blackland; House & Garden 4.11.2015; rebuilt single-storey laundry addition E as kitchen and service rooms with oak roofs and top lights;

1993 rest Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon for Paul Wailand, plans WBR; Edward J Brewster involved;

2014 adds Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Gifford for Stephen Morant by Mark Watson of WB&F; inf owner; Gothic style;
BESWICK, ALFRED E Architect, Swindon see RJ Beswick;
BESWICK, R.E.E. Architect, Swindon, died 1966, see RJ Beswick;
BESWICK, ROBERT JAMES Architect MSA; Victoria Rd, Swindon; articled WH Read, in practice from c1874-1925, +1930; son Alfred E Beswick fl c1909-64 returned from Canada c1925 to continue practice as RJ Beswick & Son, later joined by his son REE Beswick +1966; in 1965 joined with Edwards & Webster qv to form Wyvern Design Group qv;

1886 ?inv B Tabernacle, Regent Rd, Swindon, with WH Read; WBR;

1890-1 PM chapel, Gorse Hill, Swindon, opened SA 31.1.91, £850 carried out by Thomas Colborne of Stratton builder under superintendence of RJB; modern Elizabethan style in red brick; ?dem;

1895 alts WM chapel, Bath Rd, Swindon; SA 6.7.95, internal renovation and new roof; Thomas Barrett of Old Swindon contr; chapel 1880 by Bromilow & Cheers qv;

1896 Capital & Counties Bank, 55 Bridge St Swindon, alts to existing building; plans G24/760/1624, no elevation; ?dem;

1896 PM chapel, Turnball, Chiseldon; SA 11.4.96, £800; Oliver T Hawkins, Chiseldon, builder; brick Gothic;

1897 Central Club, Commercial Rd, Swindon; WBR2; corner Milton Rd, three-st, five by three bays, with Dutch gable, £6500; SB; dem 1982;

1899 Capital & Counties Bank, 3-5 High St, Old Swindon, alts to house of Mr Humphries, T £3240/17/0d Charles Williams accepted SA 9.6.99; now Lloyds; plans WSHC G24/760/1895, new stone front, now Lloyds;

1900 PM chapel, Clifton St, Swindon; plans 1899 2879/70; dem c1967-71;

1900 semi-det pair, The Sands/ Bath Rd, Swindon for WW Hunter;

1900 Surgery, Milton Rd, Swindon, for Dr BH Dale

1900 stables & stores, King St, Swindon for H Harry

1901 Kingswood, 27 Westlecot Rd, Swindon, for self, also Westwood and Deva; ?G24/760/ 1972, plans house Westlecot Road 1901;

1902 outbuildings, Restrop Farm, Purton for N Story-Maskelyne; timber, boarded cowhouse and cart-shed; G4/760/31;

1902 PM chapel and schools, Alfred St, Swindon; corner Manchester Rd; G24/760/2022 church, schools 3299/39; closed 1997, schools now a mosque, proposed new chapel c1961 by Cripps & Stewart qv;

1904 Mechanics Institute Reading Rooms, 158-9 Rodbourne Rd, Swindon;

1905 No 25 Westlecot Rd, Swindon for Goddard estate, half-timber gable, brick and stone bay on SE corner; G24/760/2192;

1907 Stores and stables for New Swindon Co-op, Harding St, Swindon; also Co-op premises John St and East St 1907;

1914 alts 92 Regent St, Swindon, for SB Cole in order to let to FW Woolworth; G24/760 2531; next door Wilts & Dorset Bank; dem;

c1919 add Euclid Street School, Swindon;

19?? Palace Cinema, Gorse Hill, Swindon; dem;

1923 alts Barclays Bank, 23 Regent St, Swindon, rear adds G24/ 760/2684 and new stone ground floor to a gabled brick front of 1903 with oriel; builders RJ Leighfield & Sons; £1652/10/5d; refronted c1953, design dated 1953 in Barclays archives; dem; bank moved to No 28 in 1970;

19?? add Lloyds Bank, High St, Swindon;

1927 New Swindon Co-operative offices, 57 Fleet St, Swindon narrow front of Carraraware tiles; G24/760/ 2901 RJB&Son;

1929 House, Westlecot Rd, Swindon, probably Littlecote, render and some half-timber; G24/760/2986; RJB&Son;

1932 Old Bear, High St, Cricklade G4/760/415; RJB&Son;

1933 alts Curriers Arms, Wootton Bassett G4/760/ 427 minor alts new doorway; RJB&Son; ?rebuilt in similar style 1953;

1933 alts and adds The Hermitage, Old Town, Swindon, RJB&Son; dem;

1934 and 1938 rest Childon ch; REEB

1935 new front, Bible Institute, Devizes Rd, Swindon, now Swindon Evangelical Church; red brick round-arched; G24/760 /3265; RJB&Son;

c1935 add factory, Newcastle St, Swindon, RJB&Son; dem;

1936 rest Mildenhall ch; by AEB;

1936 rest Broad Hinton ch, REEB;

c1936-41 School, Drove Rd, Swindon; Drove Road Girls and infants school; c1930 WBR2;

c1944 alts Wiltshire Museum, 41, Long St, Devizes by AEB; WBR2

1957 St Andrew ch, Raleigh Ave, Swindon, by REEB of RJB&Son; demolished, church hall now the church;

(1957-8 Good Shepherd ch, Bishop Rd, Bristol; SNB; RJB&Son)

1958-60 self-build houses 16-34 Farleigh Crescent, Swindon;REEB;

(1959-60 St Peter ch, Alexandra Rd, Clevedon, Som; RJB&Son; same design as Bristol;

1961 alts St Saviour ch, Ashford Av, Swindon, encasing wooden ch of 1891 and 1904; REEB;

1963 repair spire, Little Bedwyn ch after lightning damage; D1/61/20/8 RJB&Son;

(1962-4 RC Church, Thornbury, Glos; RJB&Son C20 RC church survey)

BEVAN, JOHN Senior Architect, 4 Unity St, Bristol; John Bevan Sr + c. 1905, designed numerous suburban churches in Bristol after 1870. John Bevan Jr continued practice. GJL 431;

(1871-2 First School, Cheddar, Som; SNB;

(1871 St Nathaniel ch, Redland Rd, Bristol; Gomme;

(1875 1st pr Taunton Cemetery, Som; St James Cemetery, Staplegrove Rd, built 1876-7, Br 1876 275; lodge survives, two chapels dem;

(1877-9 moved St Werburgh ch, Bristol, from Corn St to Mina Rd; Gomme;

1883 chancel, St Paul ch, Edgeware Rd, Swindon Wilts; chancel only 1st pr Br 43 1884 794; rest of church by BE Ferrey qv 1881, DWG 19.4.83; WBR, dem 1965; vicarage by Bevan 1884-6;

(1882-9 St Saviour ch, Chandos Rd, Bristol; SNB

1884-6 Vicarage, St Paul ch, Edgeware Rd, Swindon, Wilts; WBR2; dem)

(1886 St Francis ch, Ashton Gate, Bristol, ill Br 25.12.86;

(1892 chancel St Paul ch, Bedminster, Bristol; dem; GJL;

(1894 St Bartholomew ch, St Andrews Pk, Bristol; GJL;

(1894 E wall St Paul ch, Portland St, Bristol; GJL;

(1899 adds St Michael ch, Gloucester Rd, Bristol; Gomme;
BHM ARCHITECTS see Barnsley Hewett Mallinson
BHP HARWOOD ARCHITECTS Corsham and Wantage, Berks. Formed 1993 by merger of Harwood Group Practice and BHP. Chris Harwood, Bogdan Nedelkoff, Stephen Johns partners. Chris Harwood ?designed buildings in Frome Rd, Bradford on Avon, Wilts for Prism.

(20?? proposed house, Bailbrook Lane, Bath, Som; website; single-storey, green roofs;)

BICKNELL, JULIAN Architect Julian Bicknell & Associates, London; born 1945, worked with Edward Cullinan 1969-72, Arup Assocs 1979, set up practice 1983; involved in Prince of Wales Institute, Master of Art Workers Guild; designs new traditional houses eg in Weybridge, St George's Hill and Wimbledon and Kazakhstan;

1987 proposed hotel walled garden, Rushmore House, unex; huge Vanbrugh-type mansion;

1996 restoration Wardour Castle for Nigel Tuersley and new development of nine houses in a courtyard, derived from unexecuted design for stables by Richard Woods qv 1767; proposed reconstruction of mews on e side of house opposed by Georgian Group; Georgian Group News Sept 1996; completed 2003;

(1997 proposed Estcourt House, Shipton Moyne, Tetbury, Glos for Sarah Morris-Keating; unex;)

BIDDER, GEORGE PARKER Engineer, 1806-78, born Moretonhampstead, Devon, noted in youth as a calculating prodigy; worked with George and Robert Stephenson, advised on railways in Belgium and Norway, president ICE 1860; designed Victoria Docks, London;

1875-8 Consulting engineer for Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway died 1878. Succeeded by WJ Kingsbury qv;

BIDDULPH PINCHARD, CHARLES HENRY. Architect, 9 Staple Inn, Holborn, London. 1876-1944. Trained by Charles King of Plymouth. Lived in Beaconsfield, died in Wells. Works listed in Who’s Who in Architecture c1914 inc Compton Castle, Som, and works at Wellington School, Som. REDA 6 illustrates Smalls Down, Sandwich, Kent, nd. Designed London Clinic Brook St. ?diocesan architect Salisbury. May have come from Somerset family, a Mr Biddulph-Pinchard spoke against Street’s reredos in St Mary Magdalene ch Taunton, SCH 14.8.1869;

1909-13 adds Upham House, Upper Upham, Aldbourne for Hilda Hanbury d of Sir Thomas Hanbury of La Mortola, Ventimiglia; BoE large addition to W 1913; WBR plans for row of four cottages 1910, G8/760/12 brick and thatch; plans for L-plan stable with tower 1911 G8/760/19 plans 2.8.11; plans for W wing 1913 G8/760/26 with also gatehouse; GI; 1908-12 acc to WWinA 1926; CL 1.8.22; work continued after war with formal gardens walls, forecourt pavilions and pavilon at corner of E garden, all marked on 1923 OS; Miss Hanbury m James Currie 1913, Sir James Currie from 1933;

(19?? Alts Compton Castle, Compton Pauncefoot, Som, new bays on sides and front, alts to most ground floor rooms; WWiA c1914;

1912-14 rest Great Chalfield ch, Wilts; Harold Brakspear qv had wanted to rebuild S transept S wall; ousted for CHB-P; work for the Fullers of the Manor from 1912; faculty does not mention architect; oak chancel screen, move stone screen from chancel arch to Tropenell Chapel, insertion of C15 oak screen from Godstone into chancel S arch, 1912, oak reredos 1912; reredos and stone altar to Tropenell Chapel; stalls S set copied from C15 N set; pews; organ in C15 style 1914, painted by Miss Maurice; WWinA says 1909-14;

1916 bedroom addition, Great Chalfield Manor, a timber-framed upper storey added to a single-storey boot-room at SW corner, after birth of Mary Fuller; Harold Brakspear qv restored manor 1909-12 for R Fuller but after Fuller's marriage to Mabel Chapple in 1911 ousted by CH B-P who restored the church and added child's bedroom to manor after birth of Mabel Fuller in 1916; inf R Floyd; Mabel irritated by Brakspear's iron windows;

1934-5 alts Chiseldon ch, Wilts; faculty D1/61/81/9 stone communion table with retable and oak screen at E end N aisle;

1937 rest Bratton ch, Wilts; WBR;

1938 alts cottage, East Knoyle WSHC F/760/28;

(1943-4 Merrifield House, Wells, Som, for himself, inf DCrighton; mini Eliz manor;
BIDLAKE, GEORGE. Architect. Waterloo Rd, Wolverhampton. Pupil of HE Kendall. Father of WH Bidlake 1861-1938. Bidlake & Lovatt Wolverhampton & Pontypool (B&L) in 1850s; with TH Fleeming in 1870s (B&F); AEBTD; architect of Congregational chapels cf Congregational Year Book (CYB);

1st pr Kidderminster Public Rooms 1853 B&L; 2nd pr Melton Mowbray TH B&L 1854; 1st pr Stoke on Trent C chapel 1854 CYB56; 2nd pr Chester MH 1855; 1st pr Chesterfield Cemetery 1856; 1st pr Wolverhampton workhouse 1857; 1st pr Etheridge Memorial chapel Bilston 1857; 1st pr Sutton Coldfield TH 1858; Sedgley C chapel, Staffs (B&L) 1858; Ashurstwood C chapel, Sx (modified by E Steer) 1860; Shipley C chapel, Salop 1862 Gothic; Uffculme C chapel, Devon 1862 Gothic; 1st pr Rugby Cemetery 1861 (GB); 1863-4 Abbey Foregate C chapel, Shrewsbury B&Spaull; 1864 Market Drayton WM chapel, Salop, Gothic, GB, Stell197; 1865-7 Wellington TH and MH Salop BoE; 1866 Hadley WM chapel, Salop BoE637; 1867-8 Shrewsbury I chapel, Salop. BoE; 1st pr Wolverhampton TH 1866 GB; completed Lechlade C chapel Glos CYB68 J Bidlake; Entrant Kidderminster Infirmary 1869; 1873 1st pr Wellington School, Salop B&F RHH ?schools 1880 by H. Haddon BoE; 1874-6 Wellington Workhouse, Salop B&F; 1876 Newport WM chapel, Salop Br 1876 794 B&F;

1866 Independent chapel, Victoria St, Swindon, SA 9.7.66 says that plans prepared by GB fell through, but eventually built, not clear if to GB plans; ? Same as C chapel Victoria St 1866 by WJ Stent qv dem;

(1867-8 I chapel, Lechlade, Glos to be rebuilt SA 6.5.67; completed CYB 1868;

BIGGS, KEN Contractor High Littleton Som Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd founded 1928.

20?? add to Nutricia head office, Trowbridge; design and build, Biggs website; WWDC award; £2.9m; Tekus architects, Bath;

20?? bldr rest Temple of Apollo, Stourhead; Georgian Group commended;

2005 Newmarket House, White Horse Business park, Trowbridge; 2006 WWDC award

2014 new building, for Anthony Best Dynamics, The Hall, Bradford on Avon, Wilts Building Excellence Award 2014; ?builder not designer;

2015 bldrs rest Cholderton House, Georgian Group Award 2015;

BILLEREY, FERNAND Architect, Blow & Billerey, see Detmar Blow
BILSON, JOHN Rushall

1841 plans Charlton St Peter ch D/1/11/81;

BINNS, HENRY W. Architect, London, designed blocks of flats in 1930s,

1935 Stanton House, Stanton Fitzwarren; BoE; CL article 1940s;

BINYON, BRIGHTWEN Architect, Ipswich, 1846-1905; born Manchester, assistant to A Waterhouse, established in Ipswich 1871, replied to an advertisement to become architect to Swindon School Board in 1879; SB; retired 1897; Quaker; Michael Gray has written about him and Swindon;

1879-81 Board Schools, Queenstown, Swindon, T Barrett builder, TS Lansdown clerk of works, SB £1490, for 279 infants, extended 1885 for £2300 for 285 girls, remodelled 1978 as magistrate's court, demolished 1993;

1880 Gilbert's Hill Board Schools, Dixon St, Swindon, 1880, for Girls and Infants, same plans as Queenstown; £2100 opened 21.8.80, George Wiltshire qv builder; originally for infants, opened 8.7.80, SBC; T Barrett qv builder acc to WBR2; upper storey added 1889-90, extended for girls 1890;

1881 Westcott School, Birch St, Swindon; Benjamin Forse & Henry Ashley, Bristol, builders; WBR2; BN 1884b 928, BN 5.12.84 new board school Queens Terrace; demolished AB; Westcott Place Infants, Westcott St, opened 4.4.81 £2750, SBC; 1890 acc to AB, Br 1890b 237 and 432; enlarged 1896 £1132, SBC;

1880-1 Sanford St Board Schools, Swindon; D&C Jones, Gloucester, builders; plans presented 8.1.80 to cost £4000; ill BN 9.12.81, £5143, archiseek; yellow grey bricks from Dauntsey and quoins etc of thin red brick by Mr Turner qv of Swindon; now offices; SBC for 794 boys opened 4.4.81, closed 1966;

1889-90 Board Schools, Lethbridge Rd, Swindon; Br 1889b 267 and 322; now Lethbridge Primary; 1890-1 SBC, mixed school, infants admitted from 1892;

1890 Westcott School, Birch St, Swindon; Br 1890b 237 and 432; but cf 1881; cf also BN 1884b 928 Queens Terrace; demolished; ??;

1889-91 TH, Regent Circus, Swindon; BoE; 1st pr 1888, Br 15 381; Br 16 317; Br 27.4.1889; £9,000; opening of the Public Offices SA 24.10.91, tower 90' high, John Reed of Plymouth, builder; SB estimate £7760- 8000;

1891-3 adds Mechanics Institute, Emlyn Sq, Swindon; 1892-3 EH list; original 1853-5 by Edward Roberts qv; Br 1891b 55;

1898 ?New Queens Theatre, Groundwell Rd, Swindon; dem 1959; WBR2; ?is this same as Empire Theatre dem 1959 by Drake & Pizey qv;

BIRCH, JOHN Architect, John St, Adelphi, London; possibly the Birch of Barnett & Birch who laid out Putney Lower common Cemetery in 1855; author of books of designs, Country Architecture 1874 including works for RP Long of Rood Ashton and Marquess of Ailesbury of Tottenham House, awarded Denton Medal by Society of Arts for a design for labourers cottage; medal from RSA awarded for a prospectus of designs including Camp Farm, Chippenham for R.P. Long, according to a letter to RP Long 1868 in WSHC 947; WBR2, but no Camp Farm found near Chippenham; did cottages for Ailesbury estate at Great Bedwyn, also cottages at Clench, Pewsey, and Curney (?Curacy) House, Pewsey, Wilts, WBR; DWG 16.6.70 mentions several sites where cottages are being built to designs of Birch 'who gained the Society of Arts premium and medal for such designs' : Dudmaston, Salop; Caynham Court, Ludlow; Rowfant, Sx; Jermyns, Romsey; Kirby Muxloe, Leics; Woodbrook nr Birmingham; P Howell mentions brick cottages by road to Woodstock, Oxon, for Blenheim estate; author of: Examples of Labourers Cottages, 1871; Picturesque Lodges 1879 review Spectator 23.8.79; Concrete buildings for landed estates 1881; The architecture of Stables and Country Mansions, 1883; Examples of Stables, hunting-boxes, kennels, racing establishments etc 1892; the estate village for Dudmaston was at Quatt, Shopshire, 1870; design for a proposed shooting lodge, Studland, Dorset, uncertain date late C19 for WR Bankes of Kingston Lacy;

1864 pair of brick cottages, Upper Draycot, Draycot Cerne for Earl Cowley; probably the pair of cottages by 'Mr Brick' of the Adelphi awarded a medal by the RSA in 1864, attrib Mr Brick by BoE; the medal was awarded to John Birch of 3 Lancaster Pl, Strand for a pair of cottages costing £203, site not specified, inf Evelyn Watson RSA; a plan for cottages was published in Builder 1864; probable that the cottages were built significantly after 1864 to the prize design, inf Tim Couzens, the design was much modified for economy;

1870 ref to receiving four designs for pairs of cottages by John Birch on Wilts estates of the Marquis of Ailesbury at Pewsey, Savernake Forest and Great Bedwyn; SWJ 24.12.70; also DWG 29.12.1870; buildings have been erected on estates of landowners in 16 counties; DWG 28.7.70 M of Ailesbury about to remodel cottages on his Savernake estate to designs John Birch;

1870 Railway Terrace, Great Bedwyn, four pairs, illustrated in Country Architecture 1874 Pl 11A; for Marquess of Ailesbury; £1350;

1870 cottages for Marquess of Ailesbury and RP Long of Rood Ashton illustrated in work by Mr Bird (sic), one of designs approved by Soc of Arts from among 134 entrants DWG 29.12.1870;

18?? cottages at Clench, Pewsey, ?Anvil cottage a pair dated 1870

1872 Curacy House, High St, Pewsey, Br 1872 190; now the Chantry House, high St, Pewsey c1870 (DoE);

1880 labourers' cottages on the Draycot estate near Pewsey, porch, staircase, living-room, scullery etc; similar to cottages to be built at Palgrave, Norf, Clapham, Sx, on Potter's Park estate, Sy, and Sunningdale, Berks; Architect 3.7.80; ?an error for Draycot Cerne estate?;

1882 rest Everleigh House, Wilts; TC 22.11.82; Br 45 1883 452 rebuilt after fire, for Astley family; VCH;

(1882 rebuilt Ingestre Hall, Staffs, after fire)

(1886 design for Mourne Park, Co. Down RA 1886;)

(1890 design for pair of cottages, Wolseley estate, Staffs; Staffs RO);

BIRD, TOM Architect;

19?? worked on King Edward's Place, Wanborough for – Barker, parents of Captain Barker of Lushill, CL 6.9.2012; red brick Edwardian house, Allied Dunbar management training centre built there 1992 by BDP qv;

1965 reconstructed Lushill House, Castle Eaton, for Captain Fred Barker, removed alterations of c1900 by WAH Masters qv; interiors by John Fowler; CL 6.9.2012;
BIRD, WILLIAM FREDERICK Civil engineer and architect, Midsomer Norton, Som, born 1852, MSA, architect to Midsomer Norton UDC in 1902; Methodist, designed Wesleyan Schools, Midsomer Norton, now Primary School, c1900;

(1902 Board School, Clutton, Som; BoE Somerset N)

1904 WM Sunday Schools and five shops, Faringdon Rd, Swindon £6977; T: Br 28.11.03

1907-8 WM Central Hall, Clarence St, Swindon, SBC 77; closed 1971, dem 1985; brick with Monks Parks stone dressings, Tydeman Bros of Swindon builders; enlarged 1960s; drawings 1903 1614/175 plans 1906 2293/57;

BISHOP & DAY, Swindon see Bishop & Pritchett;
BISHOP & ETHERINGTON-SMITH Architects, Duke St, St James's, London; firm did minor alts to Hyde Park Hotel in 1920s acc to Survey of London;

1913 ?alts Keevil Manor for Major-Gen JBB Dickson; plans at house are mostly unsigned or signed by E Wingfield Bowles heating engineer but one bedroom plan is signed B&E-S April 1913; also one ground-floor plan pre-alteration 1912 signed by Douglas Stewart qv;

BISHOP & FISHER, Architects, Swindon; see Bishop & Pritchett
BISHOP & PRITCHETT Architects, surveyors, auctioneers Regent Circus, Swindon, c1893-1913, previously Bishop & Day c1885-93; Charles Bishop FSI FAI born 1855 at Ilminster, Som; Ellis H Pritchett FRIBA died about 1905; Ellis H Pritchett involved in cases SA 28.9.95 and 29.9.99 re licensing; Ernest Bishop FSI also a partner; firm was Bishop and Fisher (B&F) by 1906;

1890 offices, 35 Regent Circus Swindon; WBR2; dem;

1891-2 Swindon Steam Laundry, Aylesbury St, Swindon; Ellis H Pritchett architect for conversion of the Aylesbury Dairy; SA 26.12.91;

1891 offices, 36 Regent Circus, Swindon; WBR 2; CB initials; for selves; B&P

1893 Victoria Printing Works, County Rd, Swindon; WBR 2;

1895 Infant school and master's house, Highworth; T SA 22.6.95; same as Board School, Shrivenham Road, Br 1895a 494 and 1895b 55 and 93; plans F8/816/4 brick with Ruabon terracotta from JC Edwards; Joseph Thomas of Highworth builder £3040;

1896 Ernest Bishop and Mr Fisher, architect, from B&P gave evidence in a case over delapidations to Post Office, Bath St, Swindon, SA 11.7.1896;

1897-1904 Higher Elementary School, Euclid St, Swindon; C Williams builder went bankrupt; Higher Grade School 1897 probably by B&P see Br 1902b 158, AB;

1897 Houses, The Sands, Bath Rd, Swindon; WBR2

1899 proposed hotel, Princes St and Clarence St, New Swindon SA 1.9.99 EH Pritchett produced plans; dem or not built;

1902 enlarged Infants School, Clarence St Schools, Swindon Br 1902a 652;

1904 service wing, Tockenham Manor for Gerard Buxton of Icklingham, Mildenhall, Suffolk; G4/760/79; large neo-Jacobean;

1908 extension to Ashford Road, Kingshill, Swindon; AJ Colborne builder; WBR2; B&F;

1908 extensions Kingshill building estate, Swindon; B&F; AJ Colborne builder;

1913 Christ Church Hall, Devizes Rd, Swindon G24/760/ 2492; now Salvation Army;

1928 alts to Town Hall, The Square, Old Swindon for freemasons, first-floor chamber, and outside stairs against E side of tower for access to Rink Cinema in former roller-skating rink; plans WSHC by B&F printed in Denis Bird booklet on The Square;

1930 pulpit, St Barnabas, Gorse Hill, Swindon, designed 1928 by WAH Masters qv, who died, taken over by B&F; guide book; £125;
BLACKFORD & SON Contractors, Calne. JH Blackford +1949 wrote history of Cherhill village;

1928-9 adds Seagry House, for Countess Cowley; plans WSHC; inc making a dining-room of a back kitchen in an outbuilding with cross-gabled roof and dove-lantern G3/760/705 1926, and gabled addition to front for new kitchen continuing design of adjoining C17 piece; ?dem after fire in 1949;

1933 alts including infilled carriage arch, Lansdowne Arms, Calne for Trust House Hotels; NWH 7.11.33, three-storey stables converted to garages; G18/760/119;

1935 alts to cottage near Manor Farm, Compton Bassett for Captain Feilding johnson G£/760/866 ; thatched; new windows on one side;

1937 contrs All Saints ch, Southbrook St, Swindon; PH Thomas qv architect; WBR2;