Samuel Pountney Smith JP (2 November 1812Obituary. Date stated to be his birthday. – 5 November 1883) was an English architect who practised in Shrewsbury,

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, England. Smith was a native of Munslow, where he was baptised on 17 December 1812, Baptism register transcription in Corvedale, Shropshire, son of an innkeeper, Edward Smith and his wife Anne. He learned the trades of builder and architect with his uncle John Smalman Obituary. at

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near

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, and came to Shrewsbury in about 1840 after working in the latter's business. The

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shows that his major works were mainly in Shropshire, with occasional works in the neighbouring county of

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. He also carried out some works nearby in North Wales. An example of his Welsh work is

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. According to the authors of the ''

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'' series, his work was strongly influenced by A. W. N. Pugin, and his designs were mainly in Early English style. His output was mainly in relation to churches, designing new churches and carrying out alterations or restorations on others, his most important restoration being that of St Mary Magdalene, Battlefield. Smith also received domestic commissions to design new houses (e.g.: Llantysilio Hall, home of

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), and to alter others, including The Limes, in

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, which he remodelled for his own use. Shrewsbury Cemetery - geograph

He was a JP for the borough of Shrewsbury and was for a time a

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borough councillor, serving as Mayor of Shrewsbury in 1873-74, until narrowly losing an election in 1876. However he was elected alderman from outside council in 1877 and served until he died, three days before the end of his six-year term of office. Smith died at The Limes, after three months' paralysis, in 1883 aged seventy-one, and was buried in the Shrewsbury General Cemetery in Longden Road. He was architect of its church and ancillary buildings.

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