Percy Thomas

Sir Percy Edward Thomas OBE (13 September 1883 – 19 August 1969) was an Anglo-Welsh architect who worked in Wales for the majority of his life.

Percy Edward Thomas was born on 13 September 1883 in South Shields, County Durham, the son of a sea captain from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, with whom the family often travelled.

Percy Thomas began work in a shipping office, but changed to a career in architecture on advice from a phrenologist.

[1] Thomas won the competition for the design of the YMCA building in Merthyr Tydfil (built 1911), which was an important step in developing his career.

The building was designed in an Edwardian Baroque style in red brick and yellow terracotta, and later become the Mid Glamorgan County Council education offices, and housed the gym of the champion boxer Eddie Thomas.