Augustus Frederick Livesay (8 May 1808 – 24 September 1879), known professionally as A. F. Livesay, was an architect based in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, England.

Life and work

Livesay was born in Portsea, Portsmouth to John and Sarah Livesay. He trained in

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Royal Institute of British Architects in 1866.''Directory of British Architects 1834-1914: L-Z'' Antonia Brodie, British Architectural Library, "Livesay, Augustus Frederick, 1807 or 1808-1879", page 58. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described Livesay as 'a sensitive architect', and considered his finest work to be St Mary's Church, Andover, which was rebuilt from 1840. Livesay's son John Gillett Livesay (d. 1898) was also an architect, as was John's son George Augustus Bligh Livesay (1867–1916). Livesay was also the uncle of architect John Payne (1849–1921).

Some buildings by A. F. Livesay

* Holy Spirit Church, Newtown, Isle of Wight, 1835 *

Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge is a Grade II* listed 19th-century Church of England church in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, which had parish church status until 2011. It is commonly known in Trowbridge as 'The Church on the Roundabout', as it ...

, 1838 *St Mary's Church, Andover, 1840 * Portsea Island Union Workhouse (now St. Mary's Hospital), Portsmouth, with

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, 1843-5 *Southsea House (later

Queens Hotel (Southsea) Queens Hotel is a luxury hotel in Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire. The current Queen's Hotel is placed on the site of Southsea house, built in 1861 by architect Augustus Livesay, which was built for Sir John and Lady Morris. In 1865, due to b ...

, 1861

References

File:Church of the Holy Spirit, Newtown - geograph.org.uk - 1173661.jpg, Church of the Holy Spirit, Newtown, Isle of Wight 1835 File:Church of the Holy Spirit, Newtown - geograph.org.uk - 1173665.jpg, Church of the Holy Spirit, Newtown, Isle of Wight 1835 Interior File:Holy Trinity Trowbridge east end.JPG, Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge 1838 Interior 1808 births 1879 deaths Architects from Portsmouth {{UK-architect-stub