J W Poundley and D Walker

Poundley was baptized at Montgomery, 27 April 1807. Following the death of his father, he was taken into the guardianship of William Pugh of Caerhowel and in 1827 he was apprenticed to the Oswestry architect Thomas Penson. He never qualified as an architect.J D K Lloyd, John Wilkes Poundley: A Montgomeryshire Architect, ‘‘Montgomeryshire Collections’’ 65, 1977,47–56 In 1857 Poundley published Poundley's Cottage Architecture."Lloyd", 54-5

Poundley had close connections with Naylor family who, in 1835, had acquired the Brynllywarch estates at Kerry from William Pugh, the son of his guardian. They were also to acquire other estates at Leighton and Nantcribba. He was employed to undertake survey work of these acquisitions, now bound in two atlas volumes in the National Library of Wales.Naylor Estate maps and papers in the National Library of Wales. Particularly relevant is the survey by Poundley in the Harrison Mss, Vol 1(WlAbNL)004509315 Naylor Estate maps and papers in the National Library of Wales. Particularly relevant is the survey by Poundley in the Harrison Mss, Vol 1 &2 (WlAbNL)004509315 The Leighton Estate was purchased in 1847 and Poundley was employed on the construction of the monumental model farm from about 1849 to 1860.R Scourfield and R Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013, 133–4 Apart from the farm itself, some of the more important structures are the Poultry House and the "cottage orneé", Poultry Cottage, the Cable House of the Railway and the massive stone built slurry tank, for the effluent from the farm.

About 1850, Poundley moved from Brook Cottage in Kerry to Black Hall. In the 1860s until the partnership with David Walker was dissolved, their output was prodigious and included considerable quantities of estate housing. The work extended to David Davies's Llandinam estate, the Abbeycwmhir estate in Radnorshire and model farms for the Earl of Cawdor in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. It is difficult to judge to what extent Poundley actually designed buildings, but the decorative bargeboards on cottage orneé buildings as at Glanmule seems to represent his work, as well as the use of red brick with rusticated stone quoining. Poundley was the main promoter of the Abermule to Kerry Railway, which had been authorized as part of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway Act 1855. This came into effect in May 1861 following the opening of Abermule Station. The construction of the railway and the building of Kerry Station at Glanmule appears to have been supervised by Poundley, opening on 2 May 1864. The railway amalgamated with others to form the Cambrian Railways in July 1864.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Poundley was also a sheep farmer and it was largely through his efforts the Kerry Sheep breed came to be recognizedCozens L et al. "The Mawddwy, Van and Kerry Branches" Oakwood Press, 2nd ed, 2004,161

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Title page of Poundley’s Cottage Architecture

Designs for Two Sets of Farm Steadings, and a double cottage for Labourers. mainly adapted to the High Districts of Wales.

with

Plans, Sections and Elevations.

by

J W Poundley, Kerry, Montgomeryshire.

For which a Society of Noblemen & Gentlemen connected with the Principality awarded their First PRIZES in March, 1855.

To which is added a Design for a Double Cottage of one story built with Iron and Flag accompanied by Specifications. Describing the Construction of the several Buildings and a detailed estimate of the Cost.

Dedicated by permission to the

Rt Hon Lord Bagot.

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This was produced for a group of Denbighshire Gentlemen under the sponsorship of Lord Bagot, of Pool Park near Denbigh and of Blithfield in Staffordshire. The double cottage design produced by Poundley is very plain and lacks the decorative features seen on his work for the Naylor's Montgomeryshire estates. Poundley states that he had built 25 of these cottages in the past year and the cost would have been £250 for a double cottage.”Poundley’s Cottage Architecture”, Plan 1 The plans for the farm buildings for a 200-acre farm are similar to the farm buildings he erected for the Naylors at Leighton and Kerry, but on a smaller scale. The farm buildings would have cost £1000. For a farm of 100 acres the cost would have been £790. He also published plans for a simple double cottage of Bungalow form which would have cost £180 and the walls of which were supported on an iron framing.”Poundley’s Cottage Architecture”, Plan 4

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David Walker was a pupil of the architects William Hardy Hay and James Murdoch Hay in Liverpool. He was born in Birkenhead. He was practising at Unity Buildings Lord Street Liverpool in 1868 and had moved to Dale Street, Liverpool in 1881. He was still practising in 1890Antonia Brodie ed Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z),891 British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects Continuum 2001 and possibly up to his death, if he re-fronted the Bear Inn in Newtown in 1892."Scourfield and Haslam" 226 He particularly favoured whitish/yellow brick for his work and favoured rounded arched braced gables drawn from the writings of Eugène Viollet-le-DucHe seems to have drawn his inspiration from contemporary French architecture and larger and more elaborate houses are likely to be derived from Violet-le-Duc Habitations moderne (1875), while villas and smaller houses from Lacroux’s Brique ordinaire (1878) and Pierre Chabet’s La brique et la terre cuite (1881). In later life, Walker appears to have specialised in Church architecture and developed an interest an interest in church wood, writing articles on church screens and rood lofts.*Walker D. Some Account of Rood Screens and Timber Work of ‘Powys Land’ Part 1: Rood Screen in Newtown, Removed from the Old Parish Church. Part 2, Llanwnog Church. Part 3. Rood Screen, Llananno Church, Radnor. Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. 3 (1870), 211–214; Vol. 4 (1874), 181–184. Vol. 7, 61–64. He restored the screen at Llanwnnog in Montgomeryshire in 1873 and re-built in 1877-8 the church at Llananno in Radnorshire, to house the medieval screen."Scourfield", (2013), 186–7, 334–5

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Thomas Garrett Newnham was the engineer to the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal in the 1830s and was a close associate of William Pugh, of Brynllywarch. In 1834 he was admitted as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and in 1836 he subscribed to Augustus Pugin’s Examples of Gothic Architecture, where he is described as an ‘Architect’ and his address is given as Newtown. He was involved in promoting an alternative route, on behalf of the now bankrupt William Pugh for the London to Holyhead Railway, in competition with Brunel and Stephenson.Richard Williams "Montgomeryshire Worthies" Newtown 1884, 116 His model of Dolfor church was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851. At about this time he left for India to become Chief Resident Engineer of the Sindh Railway and was responsible for St Andrew's Church, Karachi, which was completed in 1867. Later in the 1870s Newnham became deputy agent of Indus Flotilla, a steamship company{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/2009/08/30/transcendent-beauty/|title=Transcendent beauty|first=Peerzada|last=Salman|date=30 August 2009|website=DAWN.COM}}

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• Ruthin Town Hall, Denbighshire, 1863-5.Hubbard E The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire), Penguin/ Yale 1986
• Llanidloes Magistrates Court and Lock-up 1864"Scourfield and Haslam" 173
• Llanfair Caereinion Police Station/Lock up 1869"Scourfield and Haslam" 211
• Montgomery Gaol Gatehouse (former).

• Kerry School 1886. A whitish yellow brick is used and the large schoolroom was lit with a tall gothic window and adjacent to which is a tower surmounted with a louvered belfry (as on the parish church) with a spire on-top. The composition is more ecclesiastical than scholastic. When the County Architect, Herbert Carr came to extend the school c.1952 he careful matched the brickwork and added stone rustication that matched that on the earlier building.
• Llanidloes. former National School (Glandwr School), Gorn Road. Attributed. Typical arched braced gables and yellow brick.

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• Broneirion, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire 1864."Scourfield and Haslam" 141
• Broneirion Lodge, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire 1864."Scourfield and Haslam" 141,
• Abbeycwmhir Hall, Radnorshire 1866/8"Lloyd", 52"Scourfield and Haslam" 285
• Abbeycwmhir Keeper’s Cottage.
• Dolforwyn, Castell Forwyn Abermule. 1866., Montgomeryshire"Lloyd", 49"Scourfield and Haslam" 110
• Nantclwyd Hall, Llanelidan, Denbighshire. 1850 House by James Kellaway Colling greatly expanded by David Walker, probably after 1864."Hubbard" 204-5

• Carno, Montgomeryshire 1862–67.Carno, Bangor Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Abbeycwmhir Radnorshire"Scourfield and Haslam" 277
• Darowen, Montgomeryshire 1862-4Scourfield and Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013,104,Darowen, Bangor Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
• Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire (attributed)"Lloyd", 51
• St Peter’s, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. Altered by Poundley and Walker in 1864.
• St Michael, Trefeglwys, MontgomeryshireTrefeglwys, Bangor Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• St John, Trefolwern, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire 1866–1874. The church is now ruined.Llanbrynmair, Bangor Diocese. Walker’s plans were rejected for a grant. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}

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• Model Farm c1839-60"Scourfield and Haslam" 133-4
• Poultry House 1861. Now restored by the Landmark Trust
• Poultry Cottage{{Cite web|url=https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/poultry-cottage-10421/|title=Holiday at Poultry Cottage in Powys, Wales|website=The Landmark Trust}}
• Slurry Enclosure
• Cilcewydd Mill, a sawmill for the Leighton Estates."Scourfield and Haslam" 134
• Cilcewydd Semi-detached double villa c.1863. Yellow brick with two arch braced gables

• Nantcribba Hall. Alterations to the frontage made by Poundley and Walker.
• Model Farm 1874 (?completion)
• Nantcribba Farmhouse c1865
• Workers Cottages. Red brick
• Gatehouse. Yellow brick, single storey.

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Extensive estate housing with typical red brick and stone rusticated quoining. An unusual composition by Poundley and Walker was a terrace of houses built for Naylor next to the former Kerry workhouse. The red bricks are punctuated by a double string of white brick and a pattern of white and black bricks below the eaves and for the upper voussoirs. The use of curved bricks in the voussiors give the impression of a pharonic head-dress.

• Sawmills
• Glanmule Cottage
• Upper Pengelli. A small holding designed as a model farm.

• The Old Schoolhouse (by Kerry Church). Alterations by Poundley 1848."Scourfield and Haslam" 126
• Reading Room and former Police house 1856, probably by Poundley."Scourfield and Haslam" 127
• The National School. Whitish yellow brick and the large schoolroom was lit with a tall gothic window. adjacent to which is a tower surmounted with a louvered belfry (as on the parish church) with a spire on-top. More ecclesiastical than scholastic. When the County Architect, Herbert Carr came to extend the school in about 1952 he careful matched the brickwork and added stone rustication that matched that on the earlier building.

• Cenarth, Gelligatti.T Lloyd et al., Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale 2006,162
• St Ismael’s Tanyllan"T Lloyd et al.", 365
• Stackpole, Pembrokeshire. Rowston.T Lloyd et al., Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire. Yale 2006,460

• Broniarth Meifod 1862. Over the River Banwy. Metal carriageway by Woodall of Dudley.
• Rhydlydan, between Llanwnog and Aberhafesp,

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• Kerry Station – typical Poundley ornate bargeboardsCozens L et al. "The Mawddwy, Van and Kerry Branches" Oakwood Press, 2nd ed, 2004

As county surveyor, Poundley is likely to have been involved in various road building improvement schemes and he ‘engineered the new road from the Pentre in Kerry to the Anchor."Lloyd", 54

Works which were completely after the dissolution of the partnership with Poundley in 1867.

• Welshpool, former Powysland Museum, 1874"Scourfield and Haslam"141
• Newtown, The Market Hall, 1870. At one point, the front of the building was covered by a fake facade. It has since been removed to show the original building"Scourfield and Haslam" 233-4
• Newtown, former Police Station, Back Lane 1870

• Trefeglwys. Former School 1872. Attributed. The characteristically carved bargeboards would support an attribution to Walker. The Master’s house was on the left and the projecting gabled lobbied entrance has gothic windows with decorative yellow brick dressing.

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• Beaumont, St. Mary (1887–1889) CumberlandBeaumont, Carlisle Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Birkenhead, St. Peter (1866–1868)Birkenhead, Chester Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Great Sutton, St John the Evangelist, 1878–82.Great Sutton, Chester Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Gwernaffield, Holy Trinity (1871–1872) Flintshire.Gwernaffield, St Asaph Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• St Anno's Church, Llananno, Radnorshire. Rebuilt church in 1877-8."Scourfield and Haslam" (2013) 334-5.
• Rhyl, St. John the Baptist (1884–1890) Flintshire.Rhyl, St Asaph Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• West Derby, St. Nathaniel (1868–1869) LancashireWest Derby, Chester Diocese. http://www.churchplansonline.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |date=18 February 2017 }}
• Newtown St David’s. Replaced Thomas Penson’s apse."Scourfield and Haslam" 222

• Dolfor, St. Paul, (1837–1852) Montgomeryshire. St David’s Diocese{{Cite web |url=http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |title=The Diamond Color Shenanigans Guide |access-date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218143922/http://www.churchplansonline.org/ |archive-date=18 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}
• Llanmerewig, St. Llwchaiarn (1838–1840) MontgomeryshireApplication for a new tower and vestry. The grant application drawing of the tower is signed by the Rev J Parker, 18 June 1838, so the design appears to be by Parker, but he would have needed a recognized architect to submit the plans.

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• Antonia Brodie (ed) Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: 2 Vols, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2001
• Cozens L et al. The Mawddwy, Van and Kerry Branches. Oakwood Press, 2nd ed, 2004
• Hubbard E (1986). The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Denbighshire and Flintshire), Penguin/Yale.
• R Scourfield and R Haslam (2013), The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire Yale University Press .

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