Edwin Nash (1812 – 14 May 1884) was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. Most of his commissions were churches. He worked with architect
John Nash Round
John Nash Round (1817''1861 England Census'' – 30 October 1864) was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in the mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. He worked with architect Edwin Nash) on St. John the Evangelist, Penge (1850); ...
on
St. John the Evangelist, Penge (1850). Thereafter he worked alone. He proposed
Joseph Fogerty
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to be a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He married Euphemia of
Camberwell
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Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This e ...
and was the father of architect Walter Hilton Nash (1850–1927). He was born in
Kennington
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,
Surrey
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, the son of William Woodbridge Nash and Elizabeth, and baptised 8 January 1813. He died at Lawrie Park,
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,
Kent
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, age 70 or 71.
Works
*
St. John the Evangelist, Penge (1850, with
J. N. Round). Nash added the gabled aisles in 1861, and the transepts in 1866.
*
All Souls' Church, Crockenhill
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, Kent (1851).
*Restoration (1857) of
St. Martin of Tours, Chelsfield, Kent, which "replaced the chancel arch, and rebuilt the northeast annexe as a vestry".
*Rebuilding of
St. James's Church, North Cray, Kent, nave (1850–1852), northwest tower (1857), and chancel (1871).
*Restoration (1861–1863) of
St. Mary's Church, St. Mary Cray, Kent, which was further restored 1876 and 1895.
*Redesign (1862–1864) of
St. Nicholas Church, Sutton.
*St. John's Cottages, Penge, Kent, on Maple Road, built 1863 as almshouses. As with their predecessors, the cottages are now privately owned homes. On New Years Day 1959 No.8 was destroyed by a gas explosion killing one person.
[Housewife dies in Maple Road blast, ''Beckenham and Penge Advertiser'', 8 January 1959, p1.] The cottage was rebuilt to closely resemble the original.
References
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1812 births
1884 deaths
English ecclesiastical architects
19th-century English architects
Date of birth missing
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
People from Kennington
Architects from Kent