John Pollard Seddon FRIBA (19 September 1827 – 1 February 1906)[1] was a British architect, working largely on churches.
His father was a cabinetmaker, and his brother, Thomas Seddon (1821–1856), was a landscape painter.
Many of their major commissions were church restoration works, most famously for Llandaff Cathedral.
In 1904 he was Diocesan Architect for London and designed a gigantic Imperial Monumental Halls, with a tall tower, to be added to Westminster Abbey; it was intended to restore the dominance of the abbey over the surrounding crowd of towers and monuments.
[8] He was also a prolific designer of furniture, metalwork, stained glass, tiles and ceramics.