Английская Википедия:George Vaughan Maddox

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person George Vaughan Maddox (1802–27 February 1864) was a nineteenth-century British architect and builder, whose work was undertaken principally in the town of Monmouth, Wales, and in the wider county. Working mainly in a Neo-Classical style, his extensive output made a significant contribution to the Monmouth townscape. The architectural historian John Newman considers that Monmouth owes to Maddox "its particular architectural flavour. For two decades from the mid-1820s he put up a sequence of public buildings and private houses in the town, in a style deft, cultured, and only occasionally unresolved."Шаблон:Sfn The Market Hall and 1-6 Priory Street are considered his "most important projects".Шаблон:Sfn

Life and works

Maddox was born in 1802, the son of a builder, John Maddox, who also worked in the county.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Howard Colvin suggests he was related to George Maddox.Шаблон:Sfn Maddox undertook a range of building commissions, including public works, churches and private domestic and commercial buildings.

Public works

Maddox designed some of Monmouth's most notable buildings including "his major work"Шаблон:Sfn the Market Hall. In the early 1830s, he won a competition organised by the borough council in Monmouth. The council had two main objectives: to relieve Church Street, then the major route into the town from the east, of through traffic; and to provide a new market hall, to allow the removal of the existing market from beneath the Shire Hall, enabling the expansion of that building to accommodate the new Assizes court. Maddox proposed a new carriage road running above the bank of the River Monnow, supported by a viaduct. The Market Hall, with a crescent-shaped frontage of Bath Stone in a Doric style, and an Ionic cupola and clerestory above the central part of the building, was built on one side of the road, and a long convex stuccoed frontage, 1-6 Priory Street, on the opposite side.Шаблон:Sfn A range of slaughterhouses, the Shambles, comprising 24 rooms with openings onto the river so that their waste would drain directly into it, were sited beneath the sandstone arches of the viaduct. The new road, now Priory Street, was opened in 1834, and the Market Hall in 1840.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn John Newman notes the ingenuity and innovation of Maddox's scheme, which created "a remarkably early inner bypass".Шаблон:Sfn

Churches

In Monmouth, Maddox designed the Methodist Church. The Victoria County History notes that Maddox undertook work at Hempsted,Шаблон:Sfn and Colvin suggests he undertook further ecclesiastical work at Clearwell, Gloucestershire.Шаблон:Sfn He drew up plans for the reconstruction of the interior of the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny but these were not carried out.Шаблон:Sfn The local historian, Keith Kissack notes that Maddox designed new side galleries for St Mary’s in 1824 but this work was removed in George Edmund Street’s remodelling of the 1880s.Шаблон:Sfn

Private commissions

Maddox's domestic and commercial buildings in the town and environs include the Beaufort Arms Hotel, Pentwyn at Rockfield, which he built as his own residence in 1834–37;Шаблон:Sfn and Croft-y-Bwla, a villa midway between Monmouth and Rockfield which was the home of Alexander Rolls and his first wife Kate Steward Rolls.Шаблон:Sfn Further works include the Masonic Hall, Kingsley House and Hendre House, the former of which he designed as his own townhouse, Oak House, and, possibly, 18 St James Street.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn

Within the wider county, he undertook a limited early re-building of The Hendre,Шаблон:Sfn and carried out work in Commercial Street, Pontypool.Шаблон:Sfn Cadw suggests that Maddox was also the architect of the main block of Piercefield House, near Chepstow, working to designs by Sir John Soane. Given the date of Maddox's birth, and the construction period for Piercefield, this seems unlikely. Newman follows the more conventional attribution to Soane himself.Шаблон:Sfn

Maddox died at Hempsted Rectory, Gloucestershire on 27 February 1864.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn

Gallery

• The Market Hall in Priory Street, Monmouth

  The Market Hall in Priory Street, Monmouth

• The Market Hall c.1905, prior to the loss of the upper storey and the cupola in a fire in 1963

  The Market Hall c.1905, prior to the loss of the upper storey and the cupola in a fire in 1963

• The Shambles (slaughterhouses) beneath the Market Hall

  The Shambles (slaughterhouses) beneath the Market Hall

• Monmouth Methodist Church

  Monmouth Methodist Church

• Beaufort Arms Hotel

  Beaufort Arms Hotel

• The Masonic Hall

  The Masonic Hall

• Pentwyn - Maddox's house at Rockfield

  Pentwyn - Maddox's house at Rockfield

• 1–6 Priory Street - Maddox's "remarkably early inner by-pass"

  1–6 Priory Street - Maddox's "remarkably early inner by-pass"

• The central block of 1-6 Priory Street

  The central block of 1-6 Priory Street

• Oak House

  Oak House

Sources

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