Thomas Alwyn Lloyd

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(11 August 1881 – 19 June 1960), known as ''T. Alwyn Lloyd'', was a Welsh architect and town planner. He was one of the founders of the Town Planning Institute in 1914 and its President in 1933. He was also a founding member of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales in 1928 and served as its chairman from 1947 to 1959.

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described Lloyd's work as follows:

Life and career

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd, from

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthi ...

. He was educated at

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and studied and Liverpool School of Architecture in the

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. Between 1907 and 1912 he was an assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the

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. In 1913 he was appointed consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust. He also undertook work for the

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and

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in Wales. In 1948 he entered into partnership with

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forming ''T. Alwyn Lloyd and Gordon.''. He married Charlotte Ethel Robarts in 1914. In about 1920 he designed his own home at 11 Heol Wen in

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, in northern Cardiff. It has been a Grade II listed building since 2001. He died on holiday in

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on 19 June 1960.

Buildings and urban planning

Housing at Boverton-Trebeferad - geograph

*1913

Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a po ...

Garden Village, Powys. Thirteen terraced houses. *1913–1914 Wrexham Garden Village, 205 houses. *

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garden suburb,

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*1915– Barry Garden Suburb,

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*1920–1923

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Garden Village, Cardiff *1922 Village Hall,

Llanfair Caereinion Llanfair Caereinion () is a market town and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales upon the River Banwy (also known as the River Einion), around 8 miles west of Welshpool. In 2011 the ward had a population of 1,810; the town itself had a p ...

, Powys * Hafod Lwyd, 11 Heol Wen,

. A house for Lloyd's own occupation. * St. Francis-on-the-Hill Chapel, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. (Now the St. Francis Millennium Centre) *1930

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extension,

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, Cardiff *1936 Trebeferad Land Settlement Scheme,

Boverton Boverton () is a village located to the east of Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. History Boverton was founded during the reign of William the Conqueror in England. It is thought that he himself founded Boverton as a farmi ...

Llantwit Major Llantwit Major () is a town and community (Wales), community in Wales on the Bristol Channel coast. It is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan, with the third largest population (13,366 in 2001) after Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Barry and ...

, Vale of Glamorgan. Housing intended to be a new village for miners resettled from the

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. *1936 Fferm Goch, Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan. 34 Semi-detached houses for unemployed miners. *1951 Llwynygog Forest Village,

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, Hafren Forest, Powys. Housing for

workers. *1949–50 Turner House Art Gallery,

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, Vale of Glamorgan. Remodelling *1960 St Margaret's Church, Wrexham Garden Village *1960 Ystrad Mynach College of Further Education Dates unknown: :*

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, Pembrokeshire – new village design :*

Menai Bridge Menai Bridge (; usually referred to colloquially as ''Y Borth'') is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, j ...

Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island () and some islets and Skerry, sker ...

– new village design :*

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, Anglesey – new village design :*Students' Union Building, Cardiff (Not the current Students' Union building, which was built in 1973)

Public appointments

* South Wales Institute of Architects, president (1929–31) * National Housing and Town Planning Council, president (1933–35) *Minister of Health's Advisory Committee on Town and Country Planning (1933–40) *

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's Consultative Panel on Reconstruction (1941–42) *Central Advisory Committee on Education (Wales) (1945–48) * Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, chairman (1947–1959) * Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments (Wales), commissioner (1949–60) *

Cambrian Archaeological Association The Cambrian Archaeological Association () was founded in 1846 to examine, preserve and illustrate the ancient monuments and remains of the history, language, manners, customs, arts and industries of Wales and the Welsh Marches and to educate t ...

, chairman of general committee (1951–54), president (1958–59) *Postmaster General's Welsh Stamp Committee (1957–58) * Discharge of Prisoners Aid Society, chairman of Cardiff branch *

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Awards

*Honorary

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, University of Wales (1950) *Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1953) *

(1958)

Commemorations

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial
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for architecture

Awarded at the Welsh National Eisteddfod for a building that cost less than £750,000, and has been completed in the past three years. Endowed by Lloyd in 1954.

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial travelling scholarships

Awarded by the

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to the top four students in the final year of the Part 1.University of Wales, Dr T Alwyn Lloyd Memorial
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T Alwyn Lloyd memorial prize

Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture for the best overall performance in the 2 examination.

Select Writings

* Lloyd, T. Alwyn ''Brighter Welsh villages and how we can achieve them'' CPRW, (1931) * Lloyd, T. Alwyn ''Town and Country Planning''. Routledge (1935) * Lloyd, T. Alwyn. with Herbert Jackson, ''South Wales Outline Plan'' HMSO (1947) * Lloyd, T. Alwyn ''Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust and Its Affiliated Societies'' The Town Planning Review Vol. 23, No. 1 (Apr. 1952), pp. 40–51. * Lloyd, T. Alwyn ''Safeguarding the Beauty of Wales:Being a short address Broadcast from Cardiff BBC station on St David's Day, 1933''. Reprinted by the CPRW Welshpool, 2008.

References

External links

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, ''Dictionary of Scottish Architects''
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