David Vaughan (architect)

David Vaughan (c.1810–c.1892) was a Welsh architect, surveyor, land agent and diarist.[1]

Vaughan began his career working as a carpenter at Stradey Castle in Llanelli. He began practising as an architect around 1840, and became land agent for three major estates in south Wales: Ffynnonwen, Newton and Pendoylan.[1]

Vaughan is best known as the architect of Bridgend Town Hall, erected in 1843 and demolished in 1971. The building was in a Greek Doric style and made the town of Bridgend the owner of one of the most impressive civic buildings in Wales.[2] His earlier projects was Bonvilston House Lodge, which still stands,[3] and Fairwater House in Cardiff.[4] He also rebuilt the Church of St Illtyd in Llanharry in the years 1867-8.[5]

In the mid-1880s, Vaughan and most of his large family moved to Llwynglas, near Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan. He was married twice and had 22 children in all. A collection of his papers is held by the Glamorgan Record Office.[1]

His date of death is recorded by some sources as 1892,[6] but his assets were not audited until September 1905,[1] thus his actual date of death is uncertain.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "David Vaughan, architect of Bonvilston papers". Archives Wales. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. ↑ John Newman; Stephen R. Hughes; Anthony Ward (1995). Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan). Penguin Books; University of Wales Press. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-14-071056-4.
  3. ↑ John B. Hilling; Welsh Arts Council; National Museum of Wales (July 1975). Plans & prospects: architecture in Wales, 1780-1914. Welsh Arts Council.
  4. ↑ John Newman; Stephen R. Hughes; Anthony Ward (1995). Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan). Penguin Books; University of Wales Press. pp. 289–. ISBN 978-0-14-071056-4.
  5. ↑ "Church of St Illtyd, Llanharry". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  6. ↑ Dennis Silvan Evans. A Victorian Family Christmas. Peterston parish magazine. Wales and the World, Western Mail: "No one would have thought that he was a man of 82"
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