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...
Architect of Methodist churches, settlement halls and social housing.Ìý Born in London to Elijah Hoole, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary. Hoole had a long working relationship with Octavia Hill : he...
Architect and politician. Studied architecture at University College London and the Royal Academy Schools,Ìýand was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British ArchitectsÌýin 1889. Elected to the...
Museum curator and architectural historian. Born JohnÌýNewenham SummersonÌýat Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Camb...
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