David Brandon (13 December 1813 – 10 January 1897) was a Scottish architect. In partnership with Thomas Wyatt, he worked mostly in the

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. He was

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to George Smith from 1828 to 1833. Five years later he entered into partnership with Wyatt, a partnership that lasted thirteen years until dissolved in 1851. He subsequently worked alone but took Samuel Tucker as an apprentice 1867 until before 1871. As a fellow of the

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he is recorded as having proposed both

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and

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for Fellowship. Brandon worked at a number of

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s and churches, these include:

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, Basildon Park,

Bayham Abbey Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, located near Lamberhurst, Kent, England. Founded c. 1207 through a combination of the failing Premonstratensian monasteries of Otham and Brockley, Bayham functioned as an abbey until its dissolut ...

, Hemsted House,

Chilham Castle Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174; the manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Di ...

Fonthill Abbey Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was b ...

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Highnam Court Highnam Court is a Grade I listed country house in Highnam, Gloucestershire, England, constructed in the 17th century. The estate passed from the Cooke family to the Guise family and, in the mid-19th century, was purchased by a member of the Gamb ...

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and Williamstrip Park. He is credited with

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's Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum (1865). His ecclesiastical work includes restoration of

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in 1849, Holy Trinity Church at

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, Kent (1852), St Mary's Church at

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, Hampshire (1865), St George, Benenden and a private chapel at Bayham Abbey (1870). Brandon died on 10 January 1897.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandon, David 1813 births 1897 deaths Gothic Revival architects Scottish ecclesiastical architects Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 19th-century Scottish architects