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.
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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...
Born London, a son of George Lethbridge. He articled in architecture under his father for four years (September 1894 to early 1898). After assisting several British architects, including Charles F....
Natural philosopher (or scientist, in today's terminology) and architect. Born Isle of Wight. Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Surveyor to the ...
In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...
SummarisingÌýWikipedia: The Office of Works (the King's Works) was responsible only for royal properties (1378–1832). This became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1852). Th...
Architect. ÌýHis father and grandfather were both architects with the name Thomas Hardwick. ÌýHardwick married Julia Shaw, sister of John Shaw, also from a family of architects. Ìý Their son, Philip C...
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