Clayton & Black
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Clayton & Black were a firm of architects and surveyors from Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. In a career spanning the Victorian, Edwardian and interwar eras, they were responsible for designing and constructing an eclectic range of buildings in the growing town of Brighton and its neighbour Hove. Their work encompassed new residential, commercial, industrial and civic buildings, shopping arcades, churches, schools, cinemas and pubs, and alterations to hotels and other buildings. Later reconstituted as Clayton, Black & Daviel, the company designed some churches in the postwar period.
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Practice information | |
Key architects | Charles E. Clayton, Ernest Black, Charles L. Clayton, Kenneth R. Black |
Partners | George Holford (to 1883); John R.F. Daviel (from 1950s) |
Founded | 1876 |
Dissolved | c. 1974 |
Location | Brighton, United Kingdom |
Significant works and honors | |
Buildings | Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton First Church of Christ, Scientist, Brighton; French Convalescent Home, Brighton; Gwydyr Mansions, Hove; Hove Fire Station; King and Queen pub, Brighton; Royal Assurance Society offices, Brighton |
Projects | Extensions to Brighton College, Brighton Friends Meeting House, Royal Albion Hotel; Remodelling of Theatre Royal, Brighton |
Charles E. Clayton and Ernest Black, their sons Charles L. Clayton and Kenneth Black,[1] and other architects articled to the firm, worked in a range of styles. The "architectural pantomime" of their Tudor Revival King and Queen pub and the elaborate Classical façade of the First Church of Christ, Scientist contrast with their plain Neo-Georgian Barclays Bank branch and the Gothic Revival St Thomas the Apostle's Church. Elsewhere in Brighton and Hove, they designed buildings in the Flemish Renaissance, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco and François Premier Revival styles. Many Clayton & Black buildings have been awarded listed status by English Heritage in view of their architectural importance—including their pink Baroque-style office for the Royal Assurance Society, described as their chef d'œuvre.