Charles Archibald Nicholson

Reeds Hill Farm,1883, now demolished

W. Noakes senior, 1890

church entrance, 1931

Poynetts Farm, 1889, situated at the bottom of the road known as "Little Switzerland" opposite entrance to Shipwrights Drive

Mr Joseph Browne, Reeds Hill Farm, circa 1883

The War Memorial, erected 1920

Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, 1867-1949, spent the first nine years of his life in Benfleet/Hadleigh (the parish boundary ran through Hadleigh House !).  He is buried in St Mary’s churchyard and the church itself is “adorned with a host of tasteful fittings and furnishing”, which he designed for it. For further information, see here.

Here we are concerned with his artwork relating to Benfleet, which includes the design of the war memorial.

To view Poynett’s Farm house as it is today.