John Wells-Thorpe

John Wells-Thorpe
Born	1928 Brighton, East Sussex, England
Education	University of Brighton
Occupation	Architect

John Wells-Thorpe OBE (born 1928) is an English architect. He is best known for the breadth of his design capability in both the UK and numerous locations overseas.

John Wells-Thorpe was born in 1928 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He attended the Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Brighton (then called the Brighton College of Art), followed by three international scholarships to Rome, Northern Italy and Moorish Spain.

He designed the Church of the Ascension in Westdene, Brighton, in 1958. From 1958 to 1959, he designed the Church of the Resurrection, now known as St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, in Woodingdean. In 1968, he designed the Holy Cross Church in Woodingdean. Five years later, in 1973, he added an extension to St Wilfrid's Church in Chichester. In 1974, he designed Hove Town Hall. He also designed a "relocatable church", a TV studio in the Arabian Desert, and financial headquarters next door to St Paul's Cathedral in London.

He served as Vice-President of the Royal Institute of British Architects and President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects. He also served on the Advisory Board of the BBC. He was founding Chair of South Downs Health NHS Trust.

In the 1995 New Year Honours he was appointed OBE for services to architecture.

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