Mary Medd
Mary Beaumont Medd was a British architect, known for public buildings including schools. Medd was the first architect to be employed by Hertfordshire county council. Together with her husband David Leslie Medd, she joined a team of architects commissioned to build schools in Hertfordshire after World War II. Together, the Medds became leading school designers in England and Wales.
She was the daughter of Ralph Henry Crowley, who worked as Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Education. After education at home, she spent one year at an experimental school run by Isabel Fry, and then was at Bedales School from 1921 to 1926.
As Mary Crowley, working with Cecil George Kemp, she designed three houses at 102, 104 and 106 Orchard Road, Tewin, Hertfordshire, in 1935–36.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview with Mary Medd in 1998 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.
