Mary Medd

Mary Beaumont Medd
Born Mary Beaumont Crowley
(1907-08-04)4 August 1907
Died 6 June 2005(2005-06-06) (aged 97)
Nationality British
Alma mater Bedales School
Occupation Architect
Practice Hertfordshire county
Ministry of Education

Mary Beaumont Medd (née Crowley, 4 August 1907 - 6 June 2005) was a British architect, known for public buildings including schools.[1] Together with her husband David Medd (1917–2009), she joined a team of architects commissioned to build schools in Hertfordshire after the Second World War. Together, the Medds became leading school designers in England and Wales.[2]

As Mary Crowley, working with Cecil George Kemp, she designed three houses at 102, 104 and 106 Orchard Road, Tewin, Hertfordshire, in 1935–36.[3]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/29) with Mary Medd in 1998 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Walker, Lynne; Saint, Andrew (24 June 2005). "Mary Medd, Obituary". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Harwood, Elain (27 April 2009). "David Medd: Architect who revolutionised school design". The Independent. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Gould, Jeremy (1977). Modern houses in Britain, 1919-1939. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. p. 45.
  4. ↑ National Life Stories, 'Medd, Mary (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1998. Retrieved 10 April 2018

Further reading

  • Burke, Catherine (2013). A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4094-7190-5.
  • Gould, Jeremy (1977), Modern houses in Britain, 1919-1939, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain


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