Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., (1850–1932) was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton.
In 1883 the Diocese of Salisbury appointed Ponting Surveyor of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations for the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire.
[1] She died in 1873 at the age of 20 while giving birth to their twin daughters Martha and Mary.
[1] Ponting never remarried, and the twins remained unmarried and lived with him until his death.