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. Born Louis Emanuel Jean Guy de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His family moved to Britain, where he set up his own practice. His most important commission was d...
Architect with Arboreal.ÌýStairway to Heaven MemorialÌýsays:"Memorial designed by local architect Harry Paticas with initial help from Jens Borstelmann."
Architect and speculative builder. ÌýWorked closely with the manufacturers Doulton and Company to produce a rough-faced terracotta for this type of neo-renaissance architectural decoration. ÌýOrnamen...
Architect.ÌýBorn in Edinburgh. Amongst his designs were: Aberconway House, Mayfair (1922), the Royal Horticultural Society's Lawrence Hall (1928); the British Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in Ne...
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
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