George Vaughan Maddox

Who was George Vaughan Maddox?

George Vaughan Maddox was a nineteenth-century British architect and builder, whose work was undertaken principally in the county of Monmouthshire, Wales.

Maddox was born in 1802, the son of another architect, John Maddox, who also worked in the county. Maddox designed some of Monmouth's most notable buildings, including the Market Hall, "his major work", the Beaufort Arms Hotel, the Methodist Church, the Masonic Hall, Kingsley House, Oak House, and 18 St James Street,.

For much of his life, Maddox lived at 8 Monk Street, Monmouth. Working mainly in a Neo-Classical style, his extensive output made a significant contribution to the Monmouth townscape. John Newman writes that his buildings "give Monmouth its particular architectural flavour. For two decades from the mid-1820s he put up a sequence of public buildings and private houses in the town, in a style deft, cultured, and only occasionally unresolved."