Habershon he designed St John the Baptist's Church, Hove, now a Grade II building.
[5] In 1862 he was involved in the relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one thousand hundredweight of human remains.
[7] In the 1901 Census for Reigate Mrs Frances Elizabeth Habershon, in the last year of her life, is living with two companions who are "in charge", and she is described as "eccentric".
[8] When their father Matthew Habershon died on 5 July 1852, the sons inherited a large office in London, and a partnership which trained many architects, including Henry Spalding (ca.1838–1910) and E.P.L.
In 1862 Edward Habershon was involved in the relocation of London's burial grounds, notably at Cure's College.
[6] I did it wholesale and had 220 very large cases made each containing 26 human bodies besides children and these weighed 43⁄4 cwt.
It was fortunate that such reasonable terms could be made at Woking Cemetery.A more horrible business you can scarcely imagine; the men could only continue their work by the constant sprinkling of disinfectant powder.
Mine was no easy task for the Bishop, the Warden, the parishioners and particularly the relatives have watched the steps taken, and the interviews with people and the correspondence has been great but all are more satisfied than could be expected.In 1863 the London practice dissolved and a partnership was formed between Edward Habershon and Henry Spalding.
It has a three-stage tower (with ashlar spire that was added later) and is dressed with knapped flint and stone.
[16] The Habershons built this church as a proprietary chapel for Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet.
[11] In 1950 it was demolished, leaving part of a corridor link with the chapel, and the laundry building containing some masonry of 1773 and 1800.
It is built of coursed ore sandstone with Bath Stone ashlar dressings, and had a copper-clad spire which was demolished after the Great Storm of 1987.
[28][29] The foundation stone of St Andrew's Church, Queens Road, Hastings, was laid in November 1869.
[30][32] The mural is the Islamic-style decorative work covering the walls around the windows at the east end (see image, right).
St Mark at Horsham was a complete rebuild in stages of a previous church which had been designed in 1840 by W. Moseley.
The nave had pink granite piers, narrow roofbeams and a pulpit "with figures on the side standing in trefoiled niches"[33] as designed by Habershon and Brock.
Services resumed briefly, then it closed again by 1982, to be partially demolished in 1988 to make way for a road and offices.
The main building is faced with roughly dressed stone, and has lancet windows with simple tracery.
The interior is of polychrome brick, with arcades and chancel arch built of stone, and a braced nave roof.
[7] They may have supervised work on the building after the dispute between builder C. Hyde and the church authorities started in 1866.