Horatio Nelson Goulty

Horatio Nelson Goulty
Born 1832 or 1833
Brighton, East Sussex, England
Died 7 July 1869
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England
Occupation Architect
Parent(s) John Nelson Goulty

Horatio Nelson Goulty (1832/33–7 July 1869) was an English architect. He designed several buildings in Brighton and was an important figure in the town's public affairs in the early Victorian era.

Biography

Early life

The Norfolk Hotel
Central United Reformed Church, Hove

Horatio Nelson Goulty was born in 1832 or 1833[note 1] in Brighton, East Sussex. His father was Reverend John Nelson Goulty, the pastor of Union Chapel and a cousin of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805).[2][3] As a result, Lord Nelson was his uncle.[2] Goulty was married and had two children.[4]

Career

In 1850, Goulty and his father were two of the four founders of the Extra Mural Cemetery in Brighton.[2] The others were architect Amon Henry Wilds and doctor and politician John Cordy Burrows.[5] Although Wilds has been credited in some sources with the design of the two cemetery chapels (only one of which survives),[6][7][8] Goulty's obituary in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror attributes the buildings to him.[2] Goulty's influence in Brighton's public life increased when he became councillor for Park ward, one of six wards created in 1854 to govern the newly created Municipal Borough of Brighton.[2] Named after Queen's Park, this electoral division covered the east of the town.[9] He supported the town's Children's Hospital,[2] which was founded by local doctor R.P.B. Taaffe at 178 Western Road on 3 August 1868 with the name Brighton Hospital for Sick Children. It now occupies a different site and is known as the Royal Alexandra Hospital.[10] He also served as a secretary of the Local School of Art in Brighton,[2] a Sunday Schools inspector and a deacon at a Nonconformist chapel.[11]

Goulty was responsible for two new Congregational churches in East Sussex during the 1860s. Cliftonville Congregational Church, a congregation based in central Hove, used his Sunday School building (erected in 1861) for worship until his grey stone Early English Gothic Revival-style church building was finished.[12][13] The church is still in active use under the name Central United Reformed Church.[14] In 1866, he used a different architectural style—plain Neoclassical—for his design of the Newhaven Congregational Chapel at Newhaven, which replaced a building of 1797.[15] The stucco-faced stone building served as a church until 1938, after which it fell into dereliction and later became an antiques market.[15]

In 1864, he designed the Norfolk Hotel, located at 149 Kings Road in Brighton.[1] The French Renaissance Revival-style building is Grade II-listed and remains in use as a luxury hotel.[16][17] The author of Moorecroft's Guide (1866), a guidebook about the resort, called it "more beautiful than any other building in Brighton".[18] Additionally, he later designed the Grand Concert Hall and the Turkish Baths in Brighton.[1] The former opened in 1866 on the southeast side of West Street, near the seafront, but was in use for only 16 years because it was destroyed by fire in 1882.[19] He also reconstructed the Hanningtons department store on North Street, also in Brighton,[1] and school buildings in Hurstpierpoint, and was commissioned by several early building societies for architectural and surveying work.[2] Between 1867 and 1868, he designed and built the Brighton Hammam, a Turkish bath for the newly formed Brighton Turkish Baths Company Ltd. It was located at 57–59 West Street and cost £14,000. One commentator described the exterior as "rising like some Moorish temple, resplendent with crimson and gilt". After closure in 1910, the building was converted into the Academy Cinema and was demolished in 1973.[20]

He became a Freemason in December 1863.[2] He was also a member of the Order of the Knights Templar.[2]

Death

He died on 7 July 1869 in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England.[1] His funeral was held 12 days later at the Extra Mural Cemetery, where between 800 and 1,000 mourners were in attendance.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ He was 36 years old at the time of his death in July 1869.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Our Office Table: Obituary". The Building News and Engineering Journal (London: Office for Publication and Advertisements) XVII: 58. 16 July 1869. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 "Obituary: The Late Bro. H.N. Goulty". Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror (London: Freemasons' Magazine Co. Ltd) XXI (525): 79. 24 July 1869. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Names on the buses: 664 John Nelson Goulty". Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Co. Ltd. 2013. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Obituary: The Late Bro. H.N. Goulty". Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror (London: Freemasons' Magazine Co. Ltd) XXI (524): 58. 17 July 1869. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Dale 1991, p. 6.
  6. ↑ Dale 1991, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Collis 2010, p. 52.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Cemetery Chapel, Lewes Road, Brighton  (Grade II) (1381666)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  9. ↑ Carder 1990, §47.
  10. ↑ Collis 2010, p. 288.
  11. ↑ "Obituary: The Late Bro. H.N. Goulty". Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror (London: Freemasons' Magazine Co. Ltd) XXI (525): 80. 24 July 1869. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  12. ↑ Middleton 2002, Vol. 7, p. 72.
  13. ↑ Elleray 2004, p. 35.
  14. ↑ "History of Central United Reformed Church Hove". Central United Reformed Church Hove. 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Elleray 2004, p. 42.
  16. ↑ Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 20.
  17. ↑ Historic England. "Norfolk Resort Hotel, 149 King's Road, Brighton  (Grade II) (1381642)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  18. ↑ Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 108.
  19. ↑ Dale 1950, p. 28.
  20. ↑ "Brighton Turkish baths (Brighton Hammam)". Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline. Malcolm Shifrin. 1 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

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