John Billing, FRIBA was an English architect from Reading, Berkshire. His grandfather Richard Billing (circa 1747–1826),Colvin, 1997, page 123 father Richard Billing (1784–1853), brothers Richard (1814–84) and Arthur (1824–96) and nephew Arthur Ernest (died 1920) were also architects.
Career
Until at least 1854, Billing practiced in Reading, Berkshire, where he was Borough Surveyor. Billing addressed a meeting of the 1849–50 session of the Oxford Architectural Society on the subject of "Parsonage Houses".
Billing had moved his practice to London by 1856, in which year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Philip Webb (1831–1915) was a pupil of his.
Works Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: repairs, 1853–56Sherwood & Pevsner, page 115Tyack, 1998, page 225 St. Giles' parish church, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, 1855Sherwood & Pevsner, page 805 St. Mary's parish church, Sydenham, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1856Sherwood & Pevsner, page 801 St. Leonard's parish church, Seaford, East Sussex: transepts and apse, 1861–62Nairn & Pevsner, 1965, page 603 St. Katherine & St. Leonard's Rectory, Drayton St. Leonard, Oxfordshire, 1862Sherwood & Pevsner, page 588
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