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NameStephen Nicholas Powys Marks 
[3, His prob. birth, Q2 of 1932, Hamptstead diet, vol 1a, p. 796], [44, May 2002]
[3, His prob. birth, Q2 of 1932, Hamptstead diet, vol 1a, p. 796], [44, May 2002]Birth24 Apr 1932, prob. Hampstead district, London
DeathMay 2020
GeneralArchitect. Literary and family historian.
FatherHerbert Henry Marks (1896-1972)
MotherIsobel Powys (1906-1999)
Notes for Stephen Nicholas Powys Marks
His probable birth on FreeBMD:
Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Jun 1932 (>99%)
Marks Stephen N P Marks Hampstead 1a 796
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Jun 1932 (>99%)
Marks Stephen N P Marks Hampstead 1a 796
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
DNB Main notes for Stephen Nicholas Powys Marks
The Antiquaries Society Salon journal of 30 June 2020 had this obituary of him:
Stephen Marks FSA died in May aged 88. He was elected a Fellow of the Society in January 1979.
Stephen Nicholas Powys Marks, writes Kate Macintosh in the Guardian (21 June), was born in London with a grandfather who had been Secretary to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and a father who was a perceptive art collector. He studied classics at Queen’s College, Oxford, and trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL.
He became Deputy Chief Conservation Officer in Westminster’s Planning Department in 1968, overseeing the formation of many large conservation areas, and writing most of the reports for newly listed buildings in the borough. He became a Planning Inspector in 1976, and at a five-day inquiry in 1972, writes the Twentieth Century Society, he helped to see off a scheme by Richard Seifert to demolish a whole block in Piccadilly. The project included a ‘grandiose redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus and surrounding streets, involving a new deck level, with the street at ground level reduced to function as a service access, and Eros raised onto the new deck’, involving ‘colossal loss of historic buildings and familiar townscape’. In 1984 he was the Inspector for Mies van der Rohe’s proposals for Mansion House Square, which were dropped after another public inquiry; James Stirling’s No 1 Poultry was built in its stead. In 1993 he was thanked in an Early Day Motion by 109 MPS, mostly Labour, for his ‘kindness and understanding’ towards members of the public during a planning inquiry that found against a new Tesco supermarket which would have been built on Meadowhead Sports Ground, Sheffield.
Marks and his family moved to Kilmersdon, Somerset in 1978, says Macintosh, where he was instrumental in the creation of Somerset Coalfield at Radstock Museum, of which he was a Director, together with the Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum Society. He was Honorary Secretary, Vice President and editor of the Newsletter of the London Topographical Society.
Stephen Marks FSA died in May aged 88. He was elected a Fellow of the Society in January 1979.
Stephen Nicholas Powys Marks, writes Kate Macintosh in the Guardian (21 June), was born in London with a grandfather who had been Secretary to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and a father who was a perceptive art collector. He studied classics at Queen’s College, Oxford, and trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL.
He became Deputy Chief Conservation Officer in Westminster’s Planning Department in 1968, overseeing the formation of many large conservation areas, and writing most of the reports for newly listed buildings in the borough. He became a Planning Inspector in 1976, and at a five-day inquiry in 1972, writes the Twentieth Century Society, he helped to see off a scheme by Richard Seifert to demolish a whole block in Piccadilly. The project included a ‘grandiose redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus and surrounding streets, involving a new deck level, with the street at ground level reduced to function as a service access, and Eros raised onto the new deck’, involving ‘colossal loss of historic buildings and familiar townscape’. In 1984 he was the Inspector for Mies van der Rohe’s proposals for Mansion House Square, which were dropped after another public inquiry; James Stirling’s No 1 Poultry was built in its stead. In 1993 he was thanked in an Early Day Motion by 109 MPS, mostly Labour, for his ‘kindness and understanding’ towards members of the public during a planning inquiry that found against a new Tesco supermarket which would have been built on Meadowhead Sports Ground, Sheffield.
Marks and his family moved to Kilmersdon, Somerset in 1978, says Macintosh, where he was instrumental in the creation of Somerset Coalfield at Radstock Museum, of which he was a Director, together with the Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum Society. He was Honorary Secretary, Vice President and editor of the Newsletter of the London Topographical Society.