George Sydney Jones (architect)

[1] He is notable for pioneering the use of flat roofs in domestic architectural designs in the Sydney suburbs of Strathfield, Beecroft and Pennant Hills.

[3] After finishing school in Sydney Jones was articled to an English architect in London qualifying to be an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architecture in 1890.

[4] Jones designed numerous houses in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield where he was born and grew up.

[5] Standing at 105 The Boulevarde Strathfield, on the corner of Albyn Road, the house is now the residence of the Bishop of the Maronite Church in Australia.

Jones and his cousin Harry Thompson designed the Trinity Congregational Church that was given to the Strathfield parish their family.

Rochester is a flat roofed house in Beecroft
Trinity Church
in Strathfield