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

Career

Beazley was articled to

William Wardell William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) was a civil engineer and architect, notable not only for his work in Australia, the country to which he emigrated in 1858, but for a successful career as a surveyor and ecclesiastical architect in En ...

in 1853 and was an

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student 1854–56. In 1856–58 he was an assistant to

G.E. Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford, London, Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Gothic Revival architecture, Vi ...

, who was the diocesan architect for the

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. Beazley began independent practice in 1860, and from 1884 worked in partnership with H.W. Burrows. Like Street, Beazley worked on a number of commissions to restore

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es and design new ones. In the 1870s and 1880s Beazley worked extensively in

Westgate-on-Sea Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have remained a popular touri ...

, Kent. He was made a Fellow of the RIBA in 1880 but resigned in 1897, the year of his death.

Work

*St. Eadburg's parish church,

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: restoration, 1862–63 *St. Mark's parish church,

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, 1864–66 *St. Michael & All Angels parish church,

Newton Purcell Newton Purcell is a village in the civil parish of Newton Purcell with Shelswell in Oxfordshire, southeast of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 103. The parish population from the 201 ...

, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1875 *St. Mildred's parish church,

Acol, Kent Acol (formerly Acholt) is a hamlet and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England, about south of Birchington. It is one of the smallest communities in Kent, and over the years large parts of the parish have been transferred to other ne ...

, 1879 *Ellingham, St Clement's Road,

, Kent, 1883 *St. Saviour's parish church, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 1884

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* * * 19th-century English architects English ecclesiastical architects 1834 births 1897 deaths Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Architects from Surrey People from Westgate-on-Sea {{UK-architect-stub