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39-630: Weston Green is a small suburban village and a ward in the Elmbridge borough of Surrey . This area was, until 1901, a part of Thames Ditton with which it remains contiguous and associated. Weston Green is also contiguous with Esher , which provides the village's closest railway station. The village forms a rough triangle of land along the west side of the midsection of the Hampton Court Branch Line next to Thames Ditton railway station and down to Esher railway station (which

78-639: A B.A. ; he also studied design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture . In 1909 the Muff family name was changed by deed poll to Maufe by Henry and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, "for ourselves and our respective issue". The deed poll stated that they were "desirous of reverting to the old form of our surname". The following year Maufe, then aged 28, moved to 139 Old Church Street , Chelsea, London . On 1 October 1910, he married Prudence Stutchbury (1882–1976),

117-537: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using

156-523: A combined freshness without obviously breaking with tradition. In 1932, Maufe won a competition to design the Guildford Cathedral , coming first among 183 entries with a Gothic design in concrete faced in brick. By the time the building was dedicated in 1961, it seemed even more of an anachronism. The cathedral's exterior including the nave and aisles together with Maufe's use of space, won him general admiration amongst fellow architects. As

195-596: A full length Lenscrete Window inspired by his design for Guildford Cathedral. In 1944, he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. From 1943, Maufe was principal architect UK to the Imperial War Graves Commission , eventually becoming chief architect and artistic adviser until 1969. Among his war memorial designs are those at Tower Hill which was an expansion to the already established memorial by Sir Edward Lutyens and

234-490: A result, he was described as a designer of churches by conviction, as he attempted to produce buildings of austere simplicity aiming directly at the creation of a religious atmosphere. At Guildford, he wanted to produce a design of the times, yet to keep in line with the great English cathedrals already established within the United Kingdom. In 1936, King George VI commissioned Maufe to conduct various alterations to

273-685: A silver medallist at the Paris Exhibition in 1925 which resulted in him securing a wide variety of commissions. The church of St Bede Clapham (1922) and St Saviour's in Acton (1924), were built for the Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb and made. The latter church displays a simple structure and has a likeness to contemporary Swedish architecture. St Saviour's was loosely based on

312-704: A weekend house on the banks of the River Thames in Laleham, Middlesex. The house, known as The Barn, was heavily influenced by Edwin Lutyens's Homewood (1901), in particular the triple gabled roof, a device he used at Kelling Hall as well. His 1924 proposals for the Palace of Industry at the British Empire Exhibition , Wembley attracted notice though an alternative design was built. Maufe was

351-496: Is adjoined by the larger Old Cranleighan (Sports) Club, see Cranleigh School . Weston Green has an Anglican church, All Saints, built in 1939 having been designed by Edward Maufe who designed Guildford Cathedral . and an unusually rounded Catholic church . Hampton Court Way was built 1928–32. It bisects the village and became the division between the Esher and Thames Ditton post towns . The average level of accommodation in

390-1030: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland  – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on

429-614: Is on the South West Main Line ), with the split between the two being the part dual-carriageway, the A309 . The name is derived from Westun, a farmstead covering land in the west of Thames Ditton. Weston Green appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Westone held by Barking Abbey (a nunnery ). Its domesday assets were: 3 ploughs . It rendered £2 per year to its feudal system overlords. The village occupies part of

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468-470: The Air Forces Memorial at Cooper's Hill overlooking Runnymede (1950–53). Maufe's domestic work had a stylish modernity, in direct contrast with the new functionalism. In the architectural language of the time it was called ‘modernity with manners’ and very much reflected the established taste of the inter-war period. Maufe often wrote and lectured on architecture chiefly on furnishing within

507-511: The Air Forces Memorial . He was a recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1944 and, in 1954, received a knighthood for services to the Imperial War Graves Commission , with which he was associated from 1943 until his death. Maufe was born Edward Muff in Sunny Bank, Ilkley , Yorkshire , on 12 December 1882. He was the second of three children and the youngest son of Henry Muff and Maude Alice Muff née Smithies. Henry Muff

546-596: The Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94) Edward Maufe Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe , RA , FRIBA (12 December 1882 – 12 December 1974) was an English architect and designer. He built private homes as well as commercial and institutional buildings, and is remembered chiefly for his work on places of worship and memorials. Perhaps his best known buildings are Guildford Cathedral and

585-683: The Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park . The small private chapel stands in the grounds of Royal Lodge which was the Queen Mother 's residence. Maufe designed a new ceiling for the chancel and a royal pew, new choir stalls and a casing for a new organ. In 1937, Maufe designed the extension to Heal's furniture store in Tottenham Court Road , where his wife Prudence worked, with his design including

624-460: The electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in

663-653: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by

702-511: The 81 representatives represents the area, that for The Dittons division. At the two tiers levels of local government, to date representatives have been from the Conservative more often lately a usually allied to the others Thames Ditton & Weston Green Residents' Association but sometimes acting independently from the other residents associations, as currently professed at the county level by Nick Darby. At Elmbridge Borough Council

741-466: The United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use

780-585: The church of Thames Ditton . Weston Green was the birthplace of Felicia Browne (1904–1936). A green buffer , including the Esher and Thames Ditton Golf Course, separate it from the Littleworth Common part of Claygate that was also once a manor of Thames Ditton. East Molesey and Esher 's part of the Imber Court and Sandown Park neighbourhoods directly adjoin. Its relatively small green

819-629: The common, headed 'Manor of Weston otherwise Barking'. The alternative name of Barking Manor appears in surveys before the 20th century of Imber Court. The manor of Weston was annexed by Act of Parliament in 1539 and leased in the following year to John Baker. In later times, the Crown usually demised it upon lease to the owner of Imber Court. In the great Onslow sale of Imber Court in 1778, William Speer (who had acquired property in Westminster and Fulham on marrying heiress Katherine Wilson) bought

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858-700: The daughter of Edward Stutchbury of the Geological Survey of India . She was an interior designer and later a director of Heal's . They had a son who died in 1968. During the First World War Maufe served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , before joining the army in 1917 with Dick Sheppard , who acted as his guarantor. Maufe enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 9 January 1917,

897-560: The decoration of St Martin-in-the-Fields , the chapels and alterations at All Saints' Church, Southampton (destroyed in the Southampton Blitz in 1940), and restoration at St John's, Hackney , which first brought him into notice in church circles. Whilst Kelling Hall was Maufe's first major project. Prior to this in 1909 he was commissioned by Marie Studholme (the Edwardian Music Hall Star) to design

936-589: The design by Ivar Tengbom of Högalid Church in Stockholm, which Maufe described as being the most completely satisfying modern Swedish building he had seen. During this period, Maufe was a constant champion of modern Swedish architecture, and was often vocal on this theme in the architectural press, citing his own buildings as having simplified elevations, painted ceilings, and applied sculpture, similar to those found in Sweden. Maufe felt that Swedish architecture had

975-476: The direction of the architect William A. Pite, brother of Arthur Beresford Pite . Soon after, the Muff family moved from Yorkshire to Red House in Bexleyheath . The house was designed by Philip Webb for William Morris ; Maufe later acknowledged the design as an early architectural influence. After completing his apprenticeship in 1904, Maufe attended St John's College, Oxford , where, in 1908, he received

1014-472: The farm belonged to Thomas Fanshawe . It was demolished in 1962. Towards the end of the 18th century, an amateur police force of about 80 men was formed at Weston Green. In 1792, a group of vigilantes was formed and based at the Harrow Inn. Their backers included William Speer of Weston Grange, Thomas Bracey and William Chauncey. From 1901 until 1939 a plain, red brick, chapel of ease here existed to

1053-587: The home and on present-day architecture. His designs were considered by interior designers to be modern and stylish, with built-in fitments and pastel colour-schemes, particularly pink, mauve, and cream, contrasted with silver-lacquered furniture and mirrors. One of his house designs was Yaffle Hill, Broadstone , Dorset , built in 1929 for Cyril Carter of Poole Pottery . Other schemes included an extension to Baylins, Beaconsfield in 1927, for Ambrose Heal , Gluck 's studio in Bolton Hill, Hampstead (1932), and

1092-602: The lands of two manors of medieval Thames Ditton: According to the Chancery Rolls of 1212, King John was entertained at a residence of some size in Ditton belonging to Geoffrey Fitz Pierre, the Chief Justice, during a royal journey from Chertsey to London. It was likely the house of one of these two manors. A curious reminder of the ancient lordship of Weston is given by a notice board, which used to stand on

1131-584: The largest parcel of land, Manor Farm. In 1801 his son William bought the remains of the manor of Weston from the Crown. This comprised waste (infertile land) that was common land and also came with the Lordship of the Manor of Weston "alias Barking". William passed on the title of Lord of the Manor of Weston to his son Wilfred Speer, and later it was inherited by Wilfred's son Wilfred Dakins Speer and then Hannibal son of Cecilia Speer and Hannibal Sandys, who took

1170-436: The name of Speer to conform with William's will. At about the same time that Speer bought the manor of Weston, he bought extensive 'wastes' or common lands belonging to the manors of Claygate and Imber Court, which has since been treated as part of the manor of Weston. The barn of Weston Manor Farm, built to Henry VIII 's order, was said to be a 'huge and splendid building'. During the reign of his younger daughter Elizabeth I

1209-453: The region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). At Surrey County Council , one of

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1248-487: The same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and

1287-783: The studio for religious services at Broadcasting House (1931). He also designed several branch banks for Lloyds Bank , including 50 Notting Hill Gate , London in 1930. Other works include the Festival Theatre in Cambridge , St Thomas the Apostle in Hanwell , London and the Oxford Playhouse and St Columba's Church ( Pont Street , London SW1). He designed buildings for Trinity and St John's College, Cambridge , Balliol and St John's College, Oxford (of which he

1326-435: The term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly

1365-480: The ward is a smaller one than its average and elects two councillors. Ward Electoral Division Wards of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils,

1404-645: Was a linen draper who was part owner of Brown Muff & Co a department store in Bradford, “the Harrods of the North”. Maufe was the niece of Titus Salt , the founder of Saltaire . Maufe started his education at Wharfedale School in Ilkley, and later attended Bradford School . During his adolescent years, Maufe became interested in architecture. In 1899 he was sent to London to serve a five-year apprenticeship under

1443-781: Was commissioned as a staff lieutenant that April, and saw action in Salonika . He was discharged on 26 February 1919. Having already been an associate member since 1910, Maufe was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1920. In 1940 Maufe commissioned his portrait, which is now housed at the RIBA. The picture shows him in front of his winning design for Guildford Cathedral from Gluck , whose studio in Hampstead he had designed in 1932. Another oil portrait of him by John Laviers Wheatley (1892-1955)

1482-589: Was exhibited in 1956 and is in the Primary Collection of the National Portrait Gallery , London. Maufe's first important commission after establishing his own practice was in 1912, the design of Kelling Hall , Norfolk , for Sir Henry Deterding. The building shows Maufe's early links with the arts and crafts movement due to its butterfly plan, knapped flint walls, and a grey tiled and gabled roof. Maufe's other pre-war work included

1521-528: Was made an honorary fellow of in 1943). Maufe was later commissioned to re-design the war-damaged Middle Temple , Inner Temple and Gray's Inn , which made him an Honorary Master of the Bench in 1951. Architectural historian Ian Nairn said that "Maufe is the rare case of a man with genuine spatial gifts but out of sympathy with the style of his time". Maufe retired in 1964 to Shepherd's Hill, Buxted , East Sussex , which he had restored as his second home in

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