Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (baptised 1723–1777) was an English architect and interior decorator born in Shrewsbury. Trained as a joiner, he designed provincial churches and houses, created rococo interiors such as the ballroom at Powis Castle, and specialised in chimney-pieces and funerary monuments.

After moving to Eyton on Severn in 1769 he farmed while continuing his architectural work, and adapted timber-bridge principles to design a cast-iron arch over the Severn at Coalbrookdale. Cast in 1777–1779, the Iron Bridge was the world's first cast-iron bridge, but Pritchard died in December 1777 before its completion.