JOHN COATES CARTER (1859-1927)
John Coates Carter was the architect who designed Prestbury War Memorial. He was born and raised in Norwich, articled to a local architect J A Pearce who was noted for designing the Town Hall at Yarmouth. John Coates Carter later became a pupil of and then assistant to the London based architect John Pollard Seddon (a leading exponent of the Arts & Crafts movement). Carter attended RA Schools becoming a FRIBA on April 30th 1900. He was President of the Cardiff, South Wales & Monmouth Architects Society with his professional practice (largely ecclesiastical) based in Cardiff from 1880's until c 1910. Most of his significant works are associated with Wales
An article by Chris Arnot in The Telegraph October 18th 2011 relating to The Red House, Penarth, which was Coate's family home in 1901, made reference to Carter's obsession with heavy intricate locks. He apparently collected German & Swiss variety of locks from the 16th century and even had one on the airing cupboard which came with a key weighty enough to have been wielded by a jailor at Newgate Prison
John Coates Carter retired to Prestbury (1916) where he re-built and enlarged the Manor House in The Burgage and made a number of alterations to the parish church of St Marys where he was a churchwarden.