Charles Nightingale Beazley (1834–1897), was a British architect. His work spans the period 1853–97.

Career

Beazley was articled to

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in 1853 and was an

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student 1854–56. In 1856–58 he was an assistant to G.E. Street, 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

Church of England parish church A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ...

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 District, Thanet Districts of England, local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy ...

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

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

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, 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