Frank Broadbent
Francis George Broadbent was a 20th-century English architect known for his work in designing churches and schools for the Roman Catholic Church.
Career
Broadbent was a partner in the architectural firm Goodhart-Rendel Broadbent & Curtis in the 1950s and 1960s and took over the practice when Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel died. Subsequently, he became senior partner in Broadbent Hastings Reid & New, retiring in 1980.Works
Broadbent completed the restoration work on Prinknash Abbey, which had been started by Goodhart-Rendel in 1939. He also restored the Tyburn convent. He worked, from 1959 to 1960, with Goodhart-Rendel on the design and construction of St Martin and St Ninian Catholic Church in Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland.The churches he designed include:
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Richmond, London
- The Church of the Holy Name, Esher
- St Ann's, Kingston Hill
- St Thomas More, Knebworth
- The Holy Name, Claygate
- St John Fisher, Cannon Hill Lane, Merton
- St John the Evangelist, Tadworth
- The Holy Spirit, Fetcham
- St Pius X, New Malden
- St Theodore, Cranbrook
- Our Lady of Dover, Buckland
Personal life
Death and legacy
Broadbent died on 13 January 1983, aged 73.His correspondence with Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel from 1941 to 1959 is held by the Royal Institute of British Architects in its Archives and Drawings Collection.