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Thomas Alwyn Lloyd

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd

Welsh architect and town planner

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd OBE (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.[1] Meic Stephens described Lloyd's work as follows:

Lloyd's small-scale buildings reflected his deep feeling for place, in both historical and environmental terms, as in the Garden Villages for which he was responsible in various parts of Wales.[2]

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Waun-y-Groes Avenue, Rhiwbina Garden Village, Cardiff, largely designed by Alwyn Lloyd

Life and career

Hafod Lwyd, Rhiwbina Garden Village. Designed by Alwyn Lloyd for his own occupation c. 1920

Thomas Alwyn Lloyd was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones Lloyd, from Denbighshire. He was educated at Liverpool College and studied and Liverpool School of Architecture in the University of Liverpool. Between 1907 and 1912 he was an assistant to Sir Raymond Unwin in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1913 he was appointed consulting architect to the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust. He also undertook work for the National Coal Board and Forestry Commission in Wales. In 1948 he entered into partnership with Alex Gordon forming T. Alwyn Lloyd and Gordon..

He married Ethel Roberts in 1914.[3]

In about 1920 he designed his own home at 11 Heol Wen in Rhiwbina Garden Village, in northern Cardiff. It has been a Grade II listed building since 2001.[3][4]

He died on holiday in Torquay on 19 June 1960.[3]

Buildings and urban planning

Housing at Trebeferad (1936)
St Margaret's Church, Wrexham Garden Village (1960)

Dates unknown:

  • Fishguard, Pembrokeshire – new village design[3]
  • Menai Bridge, Anglesey – new village design[3]
  • Llangefni, Anglesey – new village design[3]
  • Students' Union Building, Cardiff (Not the current Students' Union building, which was built in 1973)[3]

Public appointments

Awards

Commemorations

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial gold medal 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.[16][17]

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial travelling scholarships

Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture to the top four students in the final year of the Part 1.[18][19]

T Alwyn Lloyd memorial prize

Awarded by the Welsh School of Architecture for the best overall performance in the 2 MArch examination.[18]

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

  1. [1]
    Obituary, Archaeologia Cambrensis,1960
  2. [2]
    Stephens, Meic (28 July 1999). "Obituary: Sir Alex Gordon". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  3. [3]
    Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas Alwyn (1881–1960)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  4. [4]
    Cadw. "Hafod Lloyd (25893)". National Historic Assets of Wales.
  5. [5]
    Haslam, Richard (1979). The Buildings of Wales: Powys (1 ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-0710-515.
  6. [6]
    "The History of St Margaret's and Garden Village". Parish of Wrexham. p. 2. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  7. [7]
    "Llanidloes Garden Suburb Limited Reg. No. 5859R". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  8. [8]
    Newman, John (1995). The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071056-6.
  9. [9]
    "Barry Garden Suburb Appraisal and Management Plan" (PDF). Vale of Glamorgan Council. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  10. [10]
    "Rhiwbina Garden Village Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). Cardiff Council. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  11. [11]
    "Barry Chapels". GENUKI. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  12. [12]
    "Wales". Utopia Britannica. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  13. [13]
    Spence, Barbara (March 2013). "The Forestry Commission in Wales 1919–2013" (PDF). Forestry Commission Wales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  14. [14]
    "The History of St Margaret's and Garden Village". Parish of Wrexham.
  15. [15]
    Johnson, Stephanie (3 April 2020). "How three inches enabled four storeys in south Wales". RIBA Journal.
  16. [16]
    James, Clive (2014). "The History of Planning in Wales – For 'Planning' Read Housing – town (and country) planning in Wales between 1909 and 1947" (PDF). Cynllunio – RTPI Cymru Newsletter (Spring 2014). Royal Town Planning Institute: 10–11. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  17. [17]
    "Gold Medal for Architecture". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014.
  18. [18]
    "Welsh School of Architecture Student Handbook 2014/15, BSc and MArch Programmes" (PDF). Welsh School of Architecture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  19. [19]
    University of Wales, Dr T Alwyn Lloyd Memorial

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