Henry Bingham Towner

Henry Bingham Towner (1909–1997) was an English architect. He is best known for designing churches in Southern England.

Biography

Early life He was born and raised in Uckfield, Sussex. After giving up on becoming a Roman Catholic priest, he studied architecture. In 1962, he designed St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in East Worthing, Sussex, and a year later in 1963, St Thomas More's Church in Patcham, a suburb of Brighton. He designed the Chapel of the Holy Rood in Pevensey Bay in 1964. In 1969, he designed an extension to the Church of St Thomas More in Seaford, Sussex and to the St Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church in Moulsecoomb, a suburb of Brighton. The same year, he designed St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Milford, Surrey. A year later, in 1970, he designed both Christ the King Catholic Church in Langney near Eastbourne and the Holy Family Church in Lancing, West Sussex.