page_title: Henry Currey (architect)
section_title: Work at Eastbourne
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Currey (architect) / Work at Eastbourne
caption_attribution_description: English: The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
context_page_description: Henry Currey was an English architect and surveyor.
context_section_description: The Duke of Devonshire owned many buildings and much land in Eastbourne. In 1870, he designed the original College House for Eastbourne College, a project which was followed three years later by drawings for the chapel, and in 1879, Currey was to design the school's Cavendish Library.  The gables and dormer windows of many of the large houses in the same part of Eastbourne (now known locally as 'Lower Meads') also bear witness to his style of architecture. Between 1874 and 1875, he designed the Winter Garden and Pavilion in Devonshire Park, both of which are now Grade II listed buildings. Nearby is the Devonshire Park Theatre, in Italianate style, a building which was influenced by his travels to Italy in the early 1860s. The Queen's Hotel on Marine Parade was his largest single project in the town. The building took a mere 11 months to erect and opened for guests in June 1880.  The hotel stands in a prominent position opposite the pier and enjoys easterly views to Hastings and to Beachy Head in the west.  Between 1881 and 1883, he designed the Bedfordwell Pumping Station for the Eastbourne Waterworks Company; the yellow- and red-brick Classical-style building was listed at Grade II in March 2014.  His Kentish ragstone and Bath Stone St Peter's Church, again in the 'Lower Meads' area of the town, was completed in 1895 in Early English Gothic Revival style and could accommodate 800 worshippers. It was, however, made redundant and demolished in 1971.
caption: Henry Currey’s Grade II listed Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne
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