Alan Nangle

In 1945, Albury Grammar School (now The Scots School Albury) commissioned Nangle to design buildings for its Perry Street Albury campus.^[11] In 1948 Nangle completed a major new building for the Presbyterian Ladies College in Orange (now Kinross Wolaroi School). Known at the time as the Home Building it contained dormitories accommodating fifty two boarding students with no more than four being in any one room, a sick bay, sun room and toilet facilities.^[12] As early as 1943 the idea of a war memorial chapel at Trinity Grammar in Sydney was being discussed. The design and construction of this ecclesiastical structure was completed in just over twelve months being opened in 1957. It was designed by Nangle as an Old Trinitarian assisted by another old boy Fredrick Rice.^[13] In the 1950s and 1960s Nangle joined fellow Old Newingtonian architects Hedley Carr (1904–1966) and Peter Kaad (1898–1967) in designing numerous buildings on Newington's Stanmore campus.^[14] Colonel Alfred Warden VD (1868–1955) and Eric Heath (1894–1952) were foundation members of the panel. The panel designed the War Memorial Science Block, the Prescott Block, the Nesbit Wing, the Le Couteur Annex, the Centenary Hall and a new brick Stewart Spence Gymnasium replacing the original timber gym built in 1890.^[15] In the 1960s Nangle designed a gymnasium and swimming pool for the North Sydney campus of Shore School. Further work at Trinity included the science block in 1962 and the arts and music centre in 1969. Again at Newington Nangle designed a preparatory school complex at Lindfield in 1967.^[16] Built around an existing 1930s Tudor Revival Style home the new school buildings were constructed in clinker bricks with blackened vertical timber detailing in a style now reminiscent of the Sydney School architecture popular at the time.

The extended Nangle family has produced multiple generations of Sydney architects. James Nangle (1868–1941) was born in Newtown. He left school at the age of eleven to labour in a brick yard. He completed his first apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner before moving on to become a clerk of works. He studied architecture at Sydney Technical College (STC) and later at the University of Sydney under John Sulman. He began practice as an architect in 1893 and two years later was appointed to the part-time staff of the school of architecture at STC. In 1905 he became head of the school. In January 1913 he was appointed superintendent of technical education in NSW, a position he retained until his retirement in 1933. At the end of World War I he was appointed director of vocational training for ex-servicemen for which he was appointed OBE in 1921. He was a keen amateur astronomer and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in England in 1918 and became the NSW Honorary Government Astronomer in 1921. He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales, a member of the University of Sydney Senate and a member of NSW Board of Architects. He was the author of numerous papers and books on architecture, construction, education and astronomy. For nearly fifty years he served the NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects in various capacities before being elected its president in 1936.^[17] The middle of James Nangle's three sons John Edwin Thomas Nangle (1908–1977) practiced as an architect in Sydney from 1932 until 1969. His grandson James Alan Nangle (born 1947) is a semi-retired architect and town planner.^[18]