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...
This Edward Monson would have been 40 when St Albans was built. His father (Edward Monson) was a civil engineer. and junior's architect son, Edward Charles Philip Monson would have been 15. So we a...
A bar is first mentioned in 1293, when it would have been a simple structure marking one of 8 entrances to the City of London. By this time the City was no longer confined within the London Wall, a...
Architects.ÌýKeith Downes Young (12 September 1848 - 1 December 1929) was an English architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria. born in King's Road, Richmond.Ìý By 1886 he ha...
ProfessorÌýof Land Use and Transport Studies and Dean of Architecture at Cambridge. ÌýBorn Chile. ÌýAwarded an OBE in 2009.
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