Oceania, West Parade: Difference between revisions

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|date=1903

|architect=Arnold Bidlake Mitchell

|builder=William McCormick

|builder=William Abraham McCormick

|use=Residential

|osmid=w385416576

|lat=50.836697|lng=0.465357

}}

Sources say the house was built by a gentleman to commemorate the sinking of a ship called Oceania, which he had personally witnessed.<ref>This is sometimes wrongly linked to the P. & O. liner Oceana, which sank off the coast after a collision in 1912 - after the house was already built.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/18/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref> The architect was Arnold ~~Bidlake~~ Mitchell (1863-1944) and the builder was William ~~Abraham~~ McCormick with work being completed in 1903.

Sources say the house was built by a gentleman to commemorate the sinking of a ship called Oceania, which he had personally witnessed.<ref>This is sometimes wrongly linked to the P. & O. liner Oceana, which sank off the coast after a collision in 1912 - after the house was already built.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/18/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref> The architect was Arnold Mitchell (1863-1944) and the builder was William McCormick with work being completed in 1903.

It has polygonal bay windows, a large triangular pedimented gable and extensive use of terracotta.

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 |date=1903
 |architect=Arnold Bidlake Mitchell
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 |use=Residential
 |osmid=w385416576
 |lat=50.836697|lng=0.465357
 }}
-Sources say the house was built by a gentleman to commemorate the sinking of a ship called Oceania, which he had personally witnessed.<ref>This is sometimes wrongly linked to the P. & O. liner Oceana, which sank off the coast after a collision in 1912 - after the house was already built.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/18/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref> The architect was Arnold Bidlake Mitchell (1863-1944) and the builder was William Abraham McCormick with work being completed in 1903.
+Sources say the house was built by a gentleman to commemorate the sinking of a ship called Oceania, which he had personally witnessed.<ref>This is sometimes wrongly linked to the P. & O. liner Oceana, which sank off the coast after a collision in 1912 - after the house was already built.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/bexhillonsea-beginning-people-district-1983/page/18/ Bexhill-on-Sea: It's Beginning, the People & District by H. G. Carey (1983)]</ref> The architect was Arnold Mitchell (1863-1944) and the builder was William McCormick with work being completed in 1903.
 It has polygonal bay windows, a large triangular pedimented gable and extensive use of terracotta.