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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Nicholas Hawksmoor
The Parish Church of St Georges Bloomsbury Built 1720 - 30. Architect: Nicho...
From Anatpro: English architect mostly associated with philanthropic schemes, including the Gothic Columbia Market (1866) and the Gothic working-class housing-scheme at Columbia Square (1857–60), b...
Architect and antiquary, Born London. Educated at Westminster. Harrow Old Schools was his first building.
Henrietta Barnett formed a board of trustees to build this urban utopia following strict social principles: all classes accommodated, places of education provided, places for the handicapped and el...
Architect and stage designer. Born near Smithfield. Never married. He studied architecture in Italy and brought the new Palladian designs to Britain. Became Surveyor of the King's Works, the king's...
Architect, journalist and social reformer. Editor of "The Builder". Honorary Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition Memorial. Born in Brompton Terrace, Kensington. Died at h...
Person, Architecture, Journalism / Publishing, Social Welfare
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