Wiltshire architects abington, L. J. ?not an architect

Attrib rectory, Longbridge Deverill, c 1837-40;

attrib restor Longbridge Deverill ch 1852 DWG 30.12.52 not seen;
MANNING CLAMP & PARTNERS

1977 alts Hurdcott House, Barford St Martin; AJ 23.11.77 1041;

1981 rest Great Barn, Avebury for NT; CTA 1982; SA Hamilton-Fletcher project architect; also award mentions as project architect Peter Wakefield of Imrie, Porter & Wakefield qv, restoration began in 1977-8 under Imrie Porter & Wakefield; BD 15.9.78;

(1989 refurb platform buildings Didcot Station Oxon for BR; proposed BD 11.89;

MANNING, JOSEPH Architect, Corsham Court 1868
MANSER, MICHAEL Architect

1974 Mancett House, Easton Common Hill, Winterslow; GI, for – Surridge, garden by John Brookes;

MANTELL, EDWARD WALTER Architect, The Hermitage, off High St, Swindon, son of late George Mantell MD of Faringdon married Mary Jane Beaven of Sutton Veny WI 28.10.1860; premises in Bath Road 1860 then The Hermitage; in Swindon directories only 1860-63;

1858-60 Blunsdon Abbey, Blunsdon St Andrew, mansion for JR Phillips Br 1858 113 style of the C14, - Sheffield clerk of works; owned shortly after by J Clayton de Windt +1863; exhibited RA 1858 and 1860; ruins survive in Blunsdon Abbey Park static caravans; Thomas Barrett qv builder;

1859 school, Hook St, Lydiard Tregoze; exh RA 1860; plans WSHC 782/66; rear addition 1872 Lansdown & Shopland qv;

1859 National School, Station Road, Wootton Bassett; WSHC 782/116; two-storey main block, infants schoolroom at N end, master's house rear SE; as built three-storey main block;

1859 National school, Purton; Gray & Titmarsh contrs; WBR2; T: SA 18.5.59; plans WSHC 782/83;

1859 Shop, Wood St, Swindon for Edwin Knapp & Co; WBR2; Edwin Knapp, grocer, wine merchant, took over grocery of William Brush est in 1830s, SB;

1860 warehouse, stabling for Edwin Knapp & Co, Wood St, Swindon T SA 5.3.60, DWG 1.3.60;

1863 vicarage, Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon; Br 1863 98; plain rock-faced Tudor;

MAP ARCHITECTS see McAlister Armstrong & Partners;
MAR, JOHN ERSKINE, 11^th Earl of; 1675-1732; amateur architect, Jacobite, exiled after 1715; friend of James Gibbs, sent drawings from France; made plans for filling internal courts at Longleat, Wilton and Drumlanrig with domed halls; HC;
MARKWICK ARCHITECTS, Croydon, founded 1996;

2010 refronted BHS store for Topshop, The Parade, Swindon; plans on-line;

MARSH, THOMAS EDWARD MILLES Engineer born Biddestone 1818 died Bath 1907, worked on GWR under GE Frere then as resident engineer for section to Box Tunnel to 1841; then in Wales until 1846; chief inspector of all permanent way work under Brunel from 1847 to 1859; obit Grace's Guide;

1839-41 resident engineer Bath to the Box Tunnel section of GWR, under GE Frere;

1846 resident inspector on Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway;

(1877 Widcombe footbridge, Bath, Som; AFtext; replacing 1863 bridge by Hickes & Isaac that collapsed;

MARSHMAN WARREN TAYLOR Architects see MWT

1985-8 Shires shopping centre, Court St, Trowbridge;

1985-6 Emery Gate shopping centre, Chippenham;
MARTIN & CHAMBERLAIN, Architects Birmingham. William Martin & John Henry Chamberlain partnership from 1864;

1877 Hill View, Hilperton Rd, Trowbridge, for JP Haden, heating engineer; now called Ravenscroft;

MARTIN, ARTHUR CAMPBELL. Architect, 9 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London; 1875-1963, son of Rev Charles Martin warden of Radley College and Dora daughter of Bishop Moberly of Salisbury; elder brother of Rev William Keble Martin the botanist; articled to EJ May qv, practice in London 1898, FRIBA 1912; connections in Wilts through his mother, whose sister Margaret was married to Charles Awdry of Market Lavington Manor; rebuilt War Memorial chapel, Sandhurst, Berks; consulting architect to Duchy of Cornwall; author 1906 'The Small House'; cf The Old Dauntseian Assoc Mag 2015;

1895 possibly inv with stable block at Shaw Hill House, Shaw, for Charles Awdry by EJ May qv;

1899 adds Melksham House, Melksham for Charles Awdry; exh RA 1899; Br 17.6. 1899 596 old house dark and cramped with main facade to North, reconfigured to admit South sun without encroaching on garden, G Davies & Son Melksham bldrs;

1900-2 rest Manor House, South Wraxall, Wilts; WBR; for E Richardson Cox, tenant; added rear kitchen and service single-storey; and two-storey bay-window to right of gate house;

1904 lodge and gates Market Lavington Manor for Charles Awdry who bought house in 1902; The Old Dauntseian 2015;

1909 rest West Lavington ch, Wilts; WBR;

1910 rest Market Lavington ch, Wilts; WBR

1914-20 Hawkswell House, Little Cheverell, Wilts; WBR; BoE by Martin of Egham; neo-Georgian; for widow of Charles Awdry; The old Dauntseian 2015

(1922-3 Ridge, Queen Camel, Som, for Mrs Pitt; plans at house, ACM of London;

1928ff Architect to Dauntsey’s School, West Lavington, Wilts, in succession to CE Ponting qv and Harry W Smith qv; designed biology labs 1928-9, dining hall with Farmer Hall upstairs 1932-3; gym 1936; N range with Farmer House dormitory over changing rooms 1936-7; W range with common room and library 1939-40; Manor sanatorium extending E from clock tower 1946-7; Memorial gardens 1949-50 (dem); The Old Dauntesian 2015;

(1930 St Olave ch, Norbury, London; RA 1937 exh; St Olave, Mitcham, 1931, H&F)

(1936 St Luke ch, Milber, Newton Abbot, Devon from design by vicar, Rev J Keble Martin;

194? adds Manor House, Market Lavington for Dauntseys School, late 1940s inf P Nokes;

(1953-4 St Luke ch, Farnborough Way, Camberwell, London; H&C, completed by Milner & Craze)

MARTIN, STUART Architect, Evershot, Dorset. Set up 1996. Designs in neo-Georgian and vernacular traditions I.e Lexbury House 2001; New houses at Tackley (Oxon), West Milton, Lexbury Hall near Marlborough, Rock (Cornwall), Margaretting (Essex), Salcombe Regis (Devon); Woolland near Blandford Forum (Dorset); Alterations at Powerstock (Dorset), Beaminster (Dorset), Sandford Orcas (Dorset), Corscombe (Dorset) Victorian farmhouse 2007, Hilltop Farm, (Dorset); CL 18.12.2006 trained with John Simpson, then Benson & Bryant, 1994-6 worked for St Blaise Ltd conservators who rebuilt Uppark; executant architect for William Bertram qv at Parnham, Dorset, designed neo-Geo garage there; continued Anthony Jaggard's work at Bellamont, Dorset, restored Whitfield, Herefs 1999-200 for Hon Edward Clive; new house at North Hay, Oxon, 2006, for – Schicht;

2001 Lexbury Hall (prev Lexbury House) Clatford, near Fyfield for Howard & Annabel Spooner, brick neo-Early Georgian five bays; Ken Biggs contractors; brick private house near Marlborough; brick neo Georgian; Biggs website; £1.1m; bow fronted;

(2002-5 New Coptfold Hall, Essex; for Simon Upton;

(2008 Urless, Dorset, built around C19 farmhouse; Biggs contractors website; £3m)

(2014 Chitcombe, Dorset; inf Jeremy Musson; new house at Woolland won Georgian Group award 2014;

20?? alts house at Pewsey, pink washed with bow-front and thatch ?1930s Clough Williams-Ellis ?Cold Blow at Oare; removed conservatory,

2015 Garden wing, Odstock Manor for Lord Marland; single storey and attic, L-plan;
MARTINEAU, E.H. Architect London

1892 Morgan Fountain, Market Place, Warminster, dismantled, based on temple in Venice WWJ 17.12.92; made by Macdonald & Co, Aberdeen, granite; ?fragments remain in Town Garden

MASON, G. Builder

1856-8 builder Aldbourne School, W Butterfield architect; plans 782/1; dem;

MASTERS & COOPER Architects 17 Wood St, Swindon; firm of WAH Masters qv continued by his son Henry Masters and Trevor d'Almaine Cooper RIBA; in the 1970s Masters joined the Moonies, gave his estate at South Farm, Stanton Fitzwarren, to the sect and went to America, returned to Stanton Fitzwarren c2015;

1958ff repairs Inglesham church; SPAB files say that firm had looked after church for many years and file has reference to a report by (?WAH) Masters in 1921; 1966 woodwork treatment; 1974-5 retiling nave and porch roofs; 1978 fourth quinquennial; 1983 some pointing; 1985 lead roof repairs;

1965 doors in tower screen, South Marston ch; BRO EP/J/6/2/167;

1973 altar rails, movable altar and new organ front, Highworth ch; BRO EP/J/6/2/139;

1974 W end room and organ loft, St Mark ch, Church Place, Swindon; by Henry Masters;

1974-5 repairs Inglesham ch, retiled nave and porch; letter 6.9.1985 to J Schofield qv; letter from Redundant Churches Fund says Mr D'Arcy (sic) Cooper's firm has looked after church for most of C20; 4^th quinquennial report 1978 by T d'A C;

MASTERS, CHARLES HARCOURT Architect surveyor Bath. Born 1759, designed Sydney hotel and Sydney Gardens, Bath, 1796-7; later called himself Harcourt; GP Manners was partner and designed Cothelstone House, Som, with him 1816-17;

1810 report on spire of Corsham church; H Brakspear history 1929 'Mr Harcourt of Bath'; top taken down, rest taken down 1815;

MASTERS, HENRY see Masters & Cooper
MASTERS, WILLIAM ARTHUR HARVEY Architect, Stanton Fitzwarren, nr Swindon 1876-1928 articled Carpenter & Ingelow, assistant to WF Unsworth, son of Rev WC Masters qv rector of Stanton Fitzwarren; in practice from 1902, obit NWH 14.12.28; of Stanton Fitzwarren acc to ICBS 1904; Diocesan Architect for Archdeaconry of North Wiltshire; firm continued as Masters & Cooper qv at 17 Wood St, Swindon, under Masters' son Henry and Trevor D'Almaine Cooper RIBA, in 1970s Henry Masters left to join Moonies, giving his estate, South Farm, Stanton Fitzwarren, to the sect, and Cooper continued the practice, Henry Masters went to join Moonies in US, returned c. 2015.

1902-6 St Philip ch, Beechcroft Rd, Upper Stratton, Swindon; WBR2; ICBS appl rejected; built 1904-5; chancel added c. 1910 acc to church website, or 1911; brick, lancets;

1902-6 village hall, South Marston; roughcast with ventilation lantern; c1920 acc to AB;

1905 Redlands Court, Highworth, for James Arkell; 1902-6 WBR2; dated rainwater heads 1905; large Arts-and-Crafts roughcast; plans in WSHC for adds 1928-30 for G Wilson;

1905 adds The Hermitage, off High St, Swindon; WBR2; dem;

1906 Glenwood House, 63 Westlecot Rd, Swindon for JH Pakeman; WBR2; brick hipped;

1907 covered way, Nos 10-12 Westlecot Rd, Swindon; WBR2; not there;

1907-8 temporary mission ch, Southbrook St, Swindon; dem for new church by P & M Hartland Thomas qv in 1930s; G24/760/ 2390;

1907-8 St Augustine ch, Summers St, Even Swindon, Swindon; SB; FS 13.4.07, aisles never built, plans 1907 in church; vicarage 1914; five N aisle 1-lt windows 1954-70 by J Bell; apse painting by Fleur Kelly 1990;

1908 alts Riflemans Arms, Regent St, Swindon, enlarged yard, new trap shed, WBR2;

1909-12 tower, St Barnabas ch, Gorse Hill, Swindon, two stages built, not completed: WWinA 1914; foundations 1909, built 1912, was intended to have bell stage and spire with lucarnes;

19?? alterations Lushill, Castle Eaton, new top floor WWinA 1914; all removed in 1960s;

1909 Parish hall, Ashford Road, Swindon WBR2; ?for St Saviour ch;

1910 entrance to works, Devizes Rd, Swindon, WBR2;

1911 St Luke ch, Broad St, Swindon, FS 25.2.11, opened 14.10.11; stone, N aisle and SE chapel never built; did he design previous hall across W end? 1901-3, brick;

1912 reredos, Bishopstone N ch; oak; dedicated 24.5.12, MO Thomas sculptor, paintings by Miss L Clerisford of Kingshill House, Swindon; G Parker, Introduction to the history of Bishopstone; now in N aisle;

1913-14 vicarage, St Augustine ch, Morris St, Swindon; WBR2; WWinA 1914; Morris St, Even Swindon;

1916 S porch, Christ Church, Cricklade St, Swindon; BRO plans EP/J/6/SwXch/1;

1919? tower screen, Wootton Bassett ch; AB;

1919? lychgate, Liddington ch; war memorial; 1922, AB;

1920 reredos, Wroughton ch; oak, £289/12/2d made by Elliott & Son, Reading;

1921? War Memorial cross, churchyard, Highworth; AB;

1921? lychgate, Broad Blunsdon ch;

1926 lodge, Westlecot Manor, Westlecot Rd, Swindon; plans G24/760/2873; presumably also the additions of same period to Westlecot Manor; for F Goddard;

1927 PM chapel, The Circle, Pinehurst, Swindon, R&J Leighfield builders; 2293/63 plans; also Pinehurst Mission Chapel G24/760/ 2926;

1928 House, Westlecot Rd, Swindon for Mr Morrison; EW Beard builder; WBR2;

1928 designed pulpit, St Barnabas Ch, Gorse Hill, Swindon, but died and taken over by Bishop & Fisher, made 1930 £125; church guide;

Also: undated plans for addition to Rectory, Broad Blunsdon of a bedroom PR 1565/19; Stone Lodge, Stanton Fitzwarren, is said to be by Masters;

MASTERS, Rev WILLIAM CALDWELL Rector of Stanton Fitzwarren, 1842-1924, father of the architect WAH Masters qv; rector from 1885; married Ellen d of Rev John TC Ashfordby-Trenchard rector and squire of Stanton Fitzwarren;

19?? rood-screen, Stanton Fitzwarren ch; ICBS letter of 12.7.1912 explains that he designed it; there is a great deal of woodwork in the church, a chancel screen as well as screen over altar rail, panelling, altar, reredos, panelling on nave S opposite the font, stalls, pews, font cover, some of it is by Carpenter & Ingelow qv the architects of 1892 extension of the church, some by Rev Masters;

MATTHEWS, HERBERT W. Architect Bath

1904-5 Little George Hotel, New Rd, Chippenham; WBR; opened 19.8.05; plans WSHC G19/760/37;

MATHEWSON WATERS ARCHITECTS Lambourn, Berks.

20?? refurb and conv to two, listed townhouse, Devizes; brick two-storey EC19;

20?? refurb of pair of farm cottages as one house, North Wiltshire;

20?? rear addition to listed house near Lacock; hip roofed;

20?? trad cottage in Wiltshire village; brick;

20?? new racehorse training complex including owner's house, Marlborough Downs; trad, brick;

20?? replacement dwelling, racehorse training yard, Pewsey Vale; brick trad;

20?? owners house, equestrian stud on site former dairy, Wilts; boarded barn style;

20?? housing near Castle Combe, trad stone with imitation stone windows;

20?? conversion of unlisted range at former County Asylum, Pans Lane, Devizes, to 37 houses;

20?? addition Great Bedwyn school; brick;

201? extension to Late Georgian style brick house in Wiltshire;

2014 French Gardens, High St, Sutton Benger; mullions and gables; new house in old walled garden N of main street;

MAUFE, Sir EDWARD Architect, London. Architect of Guildford Cathedral.

(1919 Capital & Counties Bank, South Tidworth, Hants; photo Br 9.4.20; rendered brick; Musselwhite & Son, Basingstoke, builders; c1915 BoEHants)

1924 Bank at Amesbury, exh RA 1924;

MAULE, Major HUGH P. G. MC DSO; Architect, London; FRIBA; 1873-1940 partner of WA Forsyth qv Forsyth & Maule; Superintending Architect to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Br 17.12.20; Chief Architect Br 8.4.21;

1920 inv with experimental earth-walled buildings at Amesbury Farm Settlement for Ministry of Agriculture; Br 17.12.20, with Maxwell Ayrton and T Tyrwhitt qv both former Superintending Architects;

(1930 Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Oxford Br 30.5.30)
MAWSON, THOMAS H. Landscape architect, Lancaster

193? plans for gardens Stanton House, Stanton Fitzwarren, for R Ducas; Mawson & Partners Cumbria Archives WDB 76 files No 40 and No 204;

1937 plans for gardens, Stockton House for Hon. Michael Scott, unex; Cumbria RO; A Foyle report on Stockton House;
MAY, ALFRED MONK. Architect & surveyor, High St, Marlborough, 1848 dir; surveyed tithe maps e.g Baydon 1845; surveyed former parsonage at Little Bedwyn for sale in 1862 (D1/11/153A), firm as then May & Fuller;
MAY, JAMES Builder and undertaker, The Green, Marlborough, 1899 dir;

1860 estimate repairs cottages Milton Llilbourne and Clench for Froxfield Hospital estate; WRS Froxfield accounts;

MAYNARD, ARNE Garden designer, designed walled garde planting at Belcombe Ct, Bradford on Avon for Paul Wieland and at Blackland House for Polly Nicholson;

MAYO, CHARLES Doctor. 1837-77, described on his memorial in Avebury church as also able musician and architect, served as doctor in American Civil War, Frnaco-Prussian War, Dutch campaign in Atchin, MO in Fiji Islands, died on boat from there to Sydney;

MAY & SON Builders, Bath

1853 contractors to complete Railway Village, Swindon, for GWR; part given to May & Son, part to E Streeter qv; May & Son contract included completion of workingmen's lodgings, The Barracks, abandoned in 1847; Streeter withdrew, whole contract given to M&Son £14,796; ran out of money October 1853 but kept contract, two-thirds complete March 1854 at cost £18,000, Barracks not finished until 1855 cost estimated £4000 probably nearer £10000; C&F; May & Son built 34 cottages, at ends of each pair of rows;
MAY, FULLER & WITTS Land agents, surveyors, architects Newbury, Marlborough & London, acc to farm sale advert DWG 24.2.1870;
MAY, EDWARD JOHN. London. Architect, 1855-1941, last pupil of Decimus Burton, in office of Shaw & Nesfield, retired 1932. Involved at Bedford Park suburb, London 1880-5;

1874 survey plans Avebury ch; PR/1569/13; student exercise, or connected with RJ Withers qv restoration for which discussion began in 1875;

(1884 The Lodge, Webbington, Compton Bishop, Som; elevation from ?BN ill archiseek, half-timbered)

1895 stables, Shaw Hill House, Shaw, Wilts for Charles Awdry; ill Br 14.12.95; H Hoskings bldr; ill WBR2 119; house is dem, and stable, if built, also;

1899 work at West Kington ch, for Rev Charles Hill Awdry rector 1896-1910; ?new pews;

(1908 Webbington House, Compton Bishop, Som; AA 33 1908; AA 1911; REDA 1911; plaster by Bankart, Hayward & Wooster, Bath, bldrs;

(1928 The Oak House, Chislehurst, Kent Br 18.5.28)
MAY, JAMES Builder, Marlborough

1862 builder rest Wootton Rivers ch, architect GE Street; WI 26.6.62;

MAYHEW, JAMES GRAY Architect London , 1771-1845

1796 greenhouse, Hartham Park, Corsham, for Lady Ann James and also obelisk to General Thomas Goddard +1783; typescript history by Lawrence & Margrie in WSHC; both gone?

MAYNARD, ALAN Sculptor, mason, from France, worked at Longleat as master mason in succession to William Spicer, left 1566, before fire of 1567; returned later in 1568 and appointed joint head mason with Robert Smythson, died at Longleat 1598; may have made hall fireplace, fireplace now in billiard room, fireplace now in servants' hall; may have drawn the 3-storey elevation only drawing that relates to present façades;
MAYNE, R. V.

1971-3 Post Office Supplies Dept, Wheatstone Rd, Liden, Swindon; BoE1975; office and large warehouse, Swindon Sorting Office added later to E;

MAXFIELD, HENRY Builder Warminster

1878-9 builder, lecture-hall at the Athenaeum, Warminster (TH Wyatt);

MAXFIELD, STEPHEN Builder, cabinet-maker Silver St, Warminster 1867 1875 dirs;
MAXWELL & TUKE, Architects, Bury and Manchester; James Maxwell of Bury 1838-93 and W Charles Tuke 1843-93, practice continued by Frank Maxwell 1863-1941. Designed Blackpool Tower 1891;

1897-1900 extension of Mill St, Swindon as Manchester Road, SBC 73; terraced housing; not in WBR2;

MAXWELL, MARGARET Architect, practice at 10 Church St, Pewsey; 1924-2006; M Duckinfield History of Pewsey; obit Guardian 17.3.2006 aged 81; born Margaret Howell, married Bob Maxwell architect, worked for Bridgwater & Shepheard eg on Milton Keynes, Warwick Univ, own practice London 1961 (?1966); specialist in lanscape and conservation, won King of Prussia Medal of Ecclesiological Society in 1986 for restoration of Mildenhall church, first award of medal in 127 years ; Salisbury Diocesan Architect; Master of Art Workers Guild; architect to Wilts Historic Buildings Trust;

1981 rest Nos 2-4 High Street, Marlborough; obit Independent 28.2.06;

198? workshops in converted buildings Home Farm, Mildenhall obit Independent;

1985 rest Mildenhall ch; obit Independent;

1986-8 Community Centre made from derelict buildings at Calne, opened by Prince of Wales; obit; ?Marden House;
MCADAM, WILLIAM Surveyor, surveyed turnpike roads from Warminster and Frome to the Bath road and from Woolverton to the Trowbridge road, Warminster; Longleat papers 1826;
McALISTER ARMSTRONG & PARTNERS, Architects, Ormeau Rd, Belfast, taken over by Todd Architects 2013, cf Todd website;

2007-9 Jury's Inn, Fleming Way, Swindon; plans Swindon BC online;

MCARDLE, IAN Architect, Glove Factory, Holt; Ian McArdle Architects or IMA; worked with Grimshaw in 1980s, much work in London, Jubilee Line station at Waterloo 1999; refurbished Piccadilly Arcade 2013; worked with BDP on Bentall's shopping centre Kingston 1986-92; firm was in Godalming 2003;

1983 worked with Grimshaw on Herman Miller factory, Bath Rd, Chippenham; website;

MCDONOUGH, WILLIAM Architect, USA William McDonough & Partners;

2005 awarded contract to build Creative Planet project, Science Museum, Wroughton; BD 21.1.2005 to be built over 20 years, other practices in competition included Edward Cullinan Architects; Wilkinson Eyre; Bennet Associates; Foster & Partners was briefly involved as part of McDonough team but withdrew; project architect Russell Perry preparing plans for first building a museum store of 50,000 sq mtrs; to include National Centre for Sustainable Development, National collections Centre and series of knowledge farms for subjects such as heritage, farming, industry; Architype qv are working up plans for visitor centre;

MCILQUHAM, JAMES see MACILQUHAM
MEAD, WILLIAM JOHN Architect, 1 The Croft, Meadow Drive, Devizes, John Mead
MEDLICOTT, WALTER BARRINGTON. Architect, 15 High St, Devizes in dirs 1907-15; at 11 Hart St, London WC in 1909; descendant of George Medlicott of Dunmurry Co. Kildare 1642-1717, Rev Joseph Medlicott +1871 born Dublin was vicar of Potterne married Dionysis Long daughter of RG Long of Rood Ashton, their son Henry E Medlicott 1840-1916 of Sandfield, Potterne, was lawyer to Rood Ashton estate, county councillor; son WBM born 1872, became architect in London, enlisted 1914 in Royal Fusiliers, badly wounded 1916, then camouflage instructor for Royal Tank Corps; after war with a cousin John Medlicott tried to work a timber concession in Cilicia overrun by Ataturk's troops, died in captivity in 1920.

1906 alts Broughton Gifford ch, probably organ chamber D1/61/42/22;

1907 lodge, Seend Cleeve House; WBR2;

1908 alts Worton ch; WBR; church of 1841 by Wyatt & Brandon qv;

1910 new school, Froxfield, VCH; the present Truants House, plans G8/760/11 by WBM of 11 Hart St, London;

MELVIN, LANSLEY & MARK, architects, Berkhamsted. Peter Melvin +2009, Muriel Melvin +2008 set up together, Melvin Lansley & Mark 1965, several house in Hertfordshire 1970-87 on Modern Houses Index; St Mark RC and Church of Resurrection, Hemel Hempstead, both 1977; taken over in 1990 by Lawrence Rolland based in Scotland, firm continued as Atelier MLM 1994 now Atelier Architecture & Design, Tring under Stephen Melvin;

1977-80 restored house and office addition Burderop Park, Chiseldon, for Sir William Halcrow & Partners; AR January 78; AJ 29.7.81 two pavilions with room for more, stell columns and roof; ?later two more linked pavilions added to the W.
MERRETT, CHARLES Agent to Northey estate, Box. T Merrett & Sons were builders, contractors, wheelwrights, smiths and undertakers, Box c. 1900, Thomas Merrett qv builder 1915 dir; Merrett builders in Corsham from 1743, Edwin Merrett c1890 built houses in Paul St, Pickwick Rd and Alexandra Terrace, Corsham, son Ernest Merrett continued business;

1909 add Ashley Manor, Box, at NW end: schoolroom with dormitory over G3/760/329; for GE Northey of Cheyney Court; it was built the schoolroom with a kind of Venetian window, ill in sale catalogue 1912, but window subsequently altered to mullion-and-transom type;