Person    | Male  Born 1661  Died 1736

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Categories: Architecture

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.

 

London Historians have a good post on Hawksmoor's 6 London churches.

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Nicholas Hawksmoor

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St George's, Bloomsbury

The Parish Church of St Georges Bloomsbury Built 1720 - 30. Architect: Nicho...

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