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4 unusual facts about Benjamin Ferrey


Compton Valence

The parish church has a 15th-century tower but the rest of the building was rebuilt in 1838-9 by Benjamin Ferrey.

Plush, Dorset

Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.

Sambrook, Shropshire

The 19th-century village church, St Luke's, was designed by Benjamin Ferrey.

Tincleton

The parish manor house, Clyffe House, was rebuilt in the Tudor style in 1842 by Benjamin Ferrey.


Augustus Charles Pugin

His students included W. Lake Price, James Pennethorne, Talbot Bury, J. D'Egville, B. Ferrey, the architect Francis T. Dollman, and the comedian Charles James Mathews.

James Piers St Aubyn

He was elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1837, on the nomination of George Basevi, Edward Blore and William Railton, and became a Fellow of the Institute in 1856, proposed by Benjamin Ferrey, Giles Gilbert Scott, and F.C. Penrose.


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