David Mocatta - Biography

David Mocatta (1806–1882) was a British architect and a member of the Anglo-Jewish Mocatta family.

Biography

Mocatta studied in London from 1821 to 1827 under Sir John Soane and travelled in Italy. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of British Architects (later the RIBA) in 1836.

Mocatta was the architect of the London and Brighton Railway, designing seven italianate railway stations. Mocatta also designed balustrades and a set of eight Italianate pavilions to ornament John Urpeth Rastrick's Ouse Valley Viaduct for the L&BR.

Mocatta House, a modern office development in Trafalgar Place, Brighton is named after David Mocatta.

Works

• Montefiore Synagogue, Ramsgate, Kent, 1833
• Brighton Regency Synagogue, Sussex, 1836–38
• Brighton railway station, Sussex, 1840
• Croydon railway station, Surrey, 1841 (rebuilt 1894-95)
• Red Hill and Reigate Road railway station, Surrey, 1841 (closed 1844)
• Horley railway station, Surrey (1841, enlarged 1862, demolished 1960's)
• Three Bridges railway station, Sussex, 1841 (enlarged 1855 and 1906–09)
• Haywards Heath railway station, Sussex, 1841, (rebuilt 1933)
• Hassocks or Ditchling Gate railway station, Sussex, 1841, (demolished 1973)
• Pavilions & balustrade on the Ouse Valley Viaduct, Sussex, 1841–42

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