John Rebecca

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John Biagio Rebecca (-1847) was an architect of many buildings in Sussex and London. Living in London's Leicester Square many of his buildings were in the town of Worthing in Sussex where amongst other buldings he designed the town's first large church, the Chapel of Ease (now St Paul's Church), Beach House and Castle Goring. He also designed the facade of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire and in the 1820s restored and added a chapel to Penshurst Place in Kent.

John Rebecca was the son of Italian-born artist Biagio Rebecca (1735-1808).