Baroque architect. Former pupil and assistant of Sir Christopher Wren. Never left Britain. Designed 6 major London churches using his idiosyncratic, muscular baroque style: St Alfrege’s, Greenwich; St George’s, Bloomsbury; Christ Church, Spitalfields; St George in the East, Wapping; St Mary Woolnoth; St Anne’s Limehouse.
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have a good post on Hawksmoor's 6 London churches.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Hurst House was known originally as the Naked Beauty, often attributed to a s...
The Parish Church of St Georges Bloomsbury Built 1720 - 30. Architect: Nicho...
The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed. ÌýThe picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.
Architect based in London who became the chief architect of the Midland Bank. Full name Thomas Bostock Whinney.Ìý Other work in London includes the Midland Bank in Golders Green Road.
Architect associated with Surbiton. Also builtÌý theÌý1871 Church of St John, Grove Lane, Kingston upon Thames.
Designer, architect, conservationist, entrepreneur and social reformer, important in the Arts and Crafts movement. Born Spring Grove, Isleworth but brought up at 46 Upper Bedford Place, in a well-o...
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