Barnsley brothers

Sidney became involved as a founder of the short lived Kenton & Co. furniture business along with Sir Mervyn MacCartney, Reginald Blomfield, William Lethaby, Ernest Gimson, Stephen Webb and Colonel Harold Esdaile Malet..[3] Sidney Barnsley rebuilt the Church of Jesus Christ and the Wisdom of God at Lower Kingswood, Surrey, in 1891 in the free Byzantine style.

[4] Interior features include an Arts and Crafts movement lectern, pulpit and reading desk, in ebony and holly with mother of pearl inlay; priests' chairs with domed canopies; and Byzantine capitals from Constantinople and Ephesus decorating the aisles and west wall.

[5][6][7] The Victorian Society wrote to the Government Office for the West Midlands to request that the Secretary of State call in for his own determination the application to build a retirement village of 240 flats on the site, in Edgbaston.

[2] Sidney attended the Royal Academy's School of Architecture for two years and during this time he met Robert Weir Schultz, with whom he travelled to the Near East, Italy and Greece.

Their work served as the foundation for "a collection of roughly 1500 drawings and 1000 photographs of the most important Byzantine monuments of the Mediterranean basin, Italy, Turkey, Greece, as well as Asia Minor and the Near East, dating between 1888 and 1949."