Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A. (1850–1932) was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Career Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for the Meux brewing family's estate from 1870 until 1888. After Admiral Hedworth Meux inherited Theobalds House in Hertfordshire in 1910, Ponting enlarged the house for him.
In 1883 the Diocese of Salisbury appointed Ponting Surveyor of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations for the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire. Part of the Diocese of Bristol was added to his responsibilities in 1887 and the Diocese of Salisbury added the Archdeaconry of Dorset to his duties in 1892. He resigned from his post with the Bristol Diocese in 1915 and from that with the Salisbury Diocese in 1923.
Family Ponting married Overton's daughter Martha Margaretta in 1872. She died in 1873 at the age of 20 while giving birth to their twin daughters Martha and Mary. Ponting never remarried, and the twins remained unmarried and lived with him until his death.
Works National School, Overton and Fyfield, Wiltshire, 1875 St. Michael's parish church, West Overton, Wiltshire, 1878Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 567 St. Peter ad Vincula parish church, Broad Hinton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1879Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 146 St David's Welsh Church, Feeder Road, Bristol, 1879 (demolished 1923) St. Matthew's parish church, Mere, Wiltshire, 1882Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 347 East Kennett, Wiltshire: village dispensary and parish room, 1884 All Saints' parish church, Marden, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1885Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 331 St. Mary, St. Katherine and All Saints' parish church, Edington, Wiltshire: restoration, 1887Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 237 St. Giles' parish church, Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire: rebuilt chancel, 1888Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 479 St. John the Baptist parish church, Yaverland, Isle of Wight: reredos, 1889Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 778 St. John the Baptist parish church, Pewsey, Wiltshire: restoration, 1889–90Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 369 St. Katherine's parish church, Holt, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1891Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 272 St. Mary's parish church, Almondsbury, Gloucestershire: oak reredos, 1891Verey, 1970, page 44 Almondsbury Institute and Cottage Hospital, 1891 St. Andrew's parish church, Rockbourne, Hampshire: restoration, 1893Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 476 St. Michael's parish church, Melksham, Wiltshire: oak reredos, 1894Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 343 St. Birinus' parish church, Redlynch, Wiltshire: 1894–96Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 381 Dauntsey's School, West Lavington, Wiltshire, 1895Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 566 All Saints' parish church, Leigh, Wiltshire: relocation & reconstruction, 1896Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 294 St. John's parish church, Bemerton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1896Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 107 St. John the Evangelist parish church, Ford, North Wiltshire, 1897Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 249 St. Michael's parish church, Beer Hackett, Dorset: tower, 1897Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 89 Holy Trinity parish church, Bradpole, Dorset: north aisle, 1897Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 107 St. Andrew's parish church, West Stafford, Dorset: chancel, 1898Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 447 All Saints' parish church, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire: oak reredos, 1899Verey, 1970, pages 219–220 St. Thomas' parish church, Southwick, Wiltshire: 1899–1904Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 473 Marlborough Town Hall, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1901–02 St. Mary's parish church, Fordingbridge, Hampshire: restoration, 1901–03Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 235 St. George's parish church, Bourton, Dorset: tower, 1903–05Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 105 St. Mary's parish church, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire: restoration, 1904Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 87 Parish church of Christ, Shaw, Wiltshire, 1905Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 468 St. Aldhelm's parish church, Sandleheath, Hampshire, 1907Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 494 St. Stephen's parish church, Kingston Lacy, Dorset, 1907Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 246 Lytes Cary manor house, Somerset: restoration, after 1907 St. Eustace's parish church, Ibberton, Dorset: restoration, 1907–09Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 236 St. Martin's church, Chickerell Road, Weymouth, 1908 (now redundant)Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 451 Gymnasium, Marlborough College, Wiltshire, 1908Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 340 St. Mary's parish church, Gillingham, Dorset: tower remodelling, 1908–09Newman & Pevsner, 1972, page 214 Theobalds House, Hertfordshire: additions including tower, after 1910 St. Mary the Virgin parish church, West Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1910–12Newman & Pevsner, 1972, pages 180–181 Christ Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire: southeast chapel, 1919 East Bridgford War Memorial Cross, 1920 St. George's Church, Langham, Gillingham, Dorset: 1921 St. John the Evangelist, Boreham, Warminster, Wiltshire: baptistery, 1925–26Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 555 St. Peter's parish church, Dorchester, Dorset: reredosNewman & Pevsner, 1972, page 178
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