John Forbes (architect)

John B. Forbes (born 1795?) was an architect in Cheltenham.

He designed the Pittville Pump Room for Joseph Pitt (1825–30) and St Paul's Church (1829–31). Besides the Pump Room, on which he personally worked 1825–28, and St Paul's Church, he is credited with several other buildings in Cheltenham, including 129–131 Promenade, 1–13 Imperial Square, 3 houses in St James Square, Montpellier Villas, 29-37 Pittville Lawn, and Brandon House, Grafton Road. He had difficulty managing the finances of several concurrent speculative developments. In 1835 he was convicted of forgery, having attempted fraud on a business partner: a sentence of transportation was commuted to a short prison term. His architectural career did not recover.

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