John Billing

John Billing
Born	1816[1] or 17[2]
Died	1863[1][2]
Nationality	British
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	St. Giles' parish church, Tetsworth

John Billing, FRIBA was an architect from Reading, Berkshire. His grandfather Richard Billing (circa 1747–1826),^[3] father Richard Billing (1784–1853), brothers Richard (1814–84) and Arthur (1824–96) and nephew Arthur Ernest (died 1920) were also architects.^[2]

Career

St. Giles' parish church, Tetsworth (1855)

Until at least 1854 John Billing practiced in Reading, Berkshire, where he was Borough Surveyor.^[4] Billing addressed a meeting of the 1849–50 session of the Oxford Architectural Society on the subject of "Parsonage Houses".^[5]

Billing had moved his practice to London by 1856, in which year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.^[1] Philip Webb (1831–1915) was a pupil of his.

Works

• Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: repairs, 1853–56^[6][7]
• St. Giles' parish church, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, 1855^[8]
• St. Mary's parish church, Sydenham, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1856^[9]
• St. Leonard's parish church, Seaford, East Sussex: transepts and apse, 1861–62^[10]
• St. Katherine & St. Leonard's Rectory, Drayton St. Leonard, Oxfordshire, 1862^[11]

References

1. Brodie, 2001, page 180
2. Colvin, 1997, page 124
3. Colvin, 1997, page 123
4. Dils, Joan A (1999). "From Village to Suburb: Caversham 1840 to 1911". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXIV: 92.
5. Prout, David (1989). "'The Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture' and 'The Oxford Architectural Society', 1839-1860". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LIV: 387.
6. Sherwood & Pevsner, page 115
7. Tyack, 1998, page 225
8. Sherwood & Pevsner, page 805
9. Sherwood & Pevsner, page 801
10. Nairn & Pevsner, 1965, page 603
11. Sherwood & Pevsner, page 588

Sources

• Brodie, Antonia; Felstead, Alison; Franklin, Jonathan; Pinfield, Leslie; Oldfield, Jane, eds. (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834–1914, A–K. London & New York: Continuum. p. 180. ISBN 0-8264-5513-1.
• Colvin, H.M. (1997). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
• Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 603. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.
• Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 115, 588, 801, 805. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
• Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford An Architectural Guide. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 0-19-817423-3.