F. H. Pownall

He was County Surveyor for Middlesex for about 45 years, and designed both Anglican and Roman Catholic churches.

[3] He designed the neo-Tudor Middlesex Guildhall built in Parliament Square in 1893,[4] This was later demolished to make way for the present building of 1912–13 by J. S. Gibson, now housing the Supreme Court.

[5] Pownall was also responsible for alterations to the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, the rebuilding of Coldbath Fields Prison, and the erection of Banstead Lunatic Asylum.

[3] Amongst the churches he designed were St Peter's, London Docks, Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden and Sacred Heart Church and School, Holloway, all in London, and St Dunstan's at Cheam.

[2] He retired from his appointments and private practice in 1898, and moved to Twickenham, where he lived until his death.