Francis Anthony Baring Pollen, FRIBA (7 December 1926 – 4 November 1987) was an English architect who designed, amongst other significant buildings, Worth Abbey in West Sussex.
[1] He was born in London on 7 December 1926 and educated at Downside School in Somerset, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[2] The partnership also worked at Downside Abbey (library and archive, 1965–1970;[3] east wing, 1970–1975),[4] for Barclays Bank, and on private houses before Pollen went into business on his own account in 1971.
A group of architects that included Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, Gerard Goalen, Desmond Williams, Austin Winkley and Pollen utilised contemporary design and construction methods to deliver the 'noble simplicity' required by Vatican II.
[5] His daughter Clare has been Countess of Oxford & Asquith since her husband assumed the earldom in 2014.