Frederick Hyde Pownall (22 August 1831 – 1907) was a British architect. He was County Surveyor for Middlesex for about 45 years, and designed both Anglican and Roman Catholic churches.

Life

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He was the son of John George Henry Pownall (1792–1880), a magistrate, landed proprietor and philanthropist, and his wife Amelia Sophia Pownall (née Waterhouse). He was educated at Stanmore and Rugby, before being articled to the architect

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. He was the County Surveyor for Middlesex, for about 45 years, first under the Justices of the Peace and then, from 1888, under the newly established

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. He designed the neo-Tudor

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built in Parliament Square in 1893, This was later demolished to make way for the present building of 1912–13 by J. S. Gibson, now housing the Supreme Court. Pownall was also responsible for alterations to the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, the rebuilding of Coldbath Fields Prison, and the erection of Banstead Lunatic Asylum. Amongst the churches he designed were

St Peter's, London Docks St Peter's, Wapping, is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Wapping Lane, Wapping, London, E1W 2RW. It was built in 1865–1939, designed by F. H. Pownall. The church was the first Anglican mission to the poor of London. Work was begun in 18 ...

, Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden and Sacred Heart Church and School, Holloway, all in London, and St Dunstan's at

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. He retired from his appointments and private practice in 1898, and moved to Twickenham, where he lived until his death. Pownall is recorded as having converted to Roman Catholicism at some time before 1885. He exhibited six works the Royal Academy between 1852 and 1867.

Family

He married Jane Todd in 1856, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. Jane Pownall died in 1883 and F. H. Pownall had a son and two daughters by his second wife. His eldest son was the Very Rev. Canon Arthur Hyde Pownall (1857–1935) and a younger son, Gilbert Pownall, designed much of the mosaic work in

Westminster Cathedral Westminster Cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. It is the largest Catholic church in the UK and the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster. The site on which the cathedral stands in the City of ...

. His youngest son, Hubert Joseph Pownall (b. 1891), was killed in France in 1916

Works

* St Mary,

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, Yorkshire (Anglican), 1858–59. *Alterations to the Sessions House,

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, 1860. Pownall refaced three sides of the building, previously bare brick, with

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. *St Philip and St James, Whitton, Twickenham (Anglican), 1862. *Expansion of Coldbath Fields Prison, in two phases between 1863 and 1870. Closed in 1885 and demolished. *St John Evangelist,

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, Yorkshire (Anglican) 1864. *

(Anglican), consecrated 1866. *Sacred Heart Convent, Hove, 1870–72; now

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. * Sacred Heart Church and School, Holloway, London (Roman Catholic) 1870. * Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden (Roman Catholic), 1873–74. *Most Holy Trinity Monastery, Notting Hill, St. Charles Square (

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monastery), 1877-1878. *Church and school of St Thomas of Canterbury at Grays, Essex (Roman Catholic), 1886. *Middlesex Guildhall, Parliament Square, London, 1893; demolished. * Banstead Lunatic Asylum, 1877; demolished.

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