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...
The Duke of Monmouth obtained a site in Soho Square in 1681 on which the house was built. After his execution, it became the residence for successive French Ambassadors, before being demolished.
Also known as the Leicester Fields chapel. Founded by Huguenot refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Occupied: - 1693-1776 by the Huguenots, - 1776-1...
Architect. Born Wells Wintemute Coates in Tokyo of Canadian parents. He was influenced by Le Corbusier's principal that buildings should be 'machines for living' , which was reflected in his best k...
Secretary to the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Architect and writer on art. Born near Devizes, Wiltshire. Died Dimlands Castle, Glamorgan.
