Person    | Male  Born 17/9/1842  Died 5/4/1935

Basil Champneys

Categories: Architecture

Architect. Born Whitechapel. Died at home at 42 Frognal Lane, Hampstead.

Works include: Newnham College, Cambridge.

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Basil Champneys

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Henry Fawcett

Bronze. The delightful dolphin spout is very similar to that at St Dunstan's....

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Nicholas Hawksmoor

Nicholas Hawksmoor

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;...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Sir Joseph Paxton

Sir Joseph Paxton

Architect responsible for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Born Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. The Crystal Palace Company gave him, free of rent, Rockhills, a Regency house to the north of the Crystal Pala...

Person, Architecture, Gardens / Agriculture

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Raising the tower - Wandsworth All Saints

Raising the tower - Wandsworth All Saints

The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed.  The picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.

Event, Architecture, Religion

1 memorial
Sir Herbert Baker and Scott

Sir Herbert Baker and Scott

Architects.  Later Vernon Helbing joined the firm. Sir Herbert Baker was one of the four principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission, See Blomfield for the others.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial