Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a square at their bridge ends, and St George's Circus with its obelisk. Surveyor to the New River Company and to St Paul's Cathedral.
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Robert Mylne
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St George's Circus - obelisk
Diamond Geezer has a very good post on this piece of street furniture but, su...
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Benjamin Wyatt
Baptized at St Marylebone. Designed the Drury Lane Theatre. Died, unmarried, in Stanhope Street, York Place, Regent's Park, leaving everything to his long-time servant, Martha.
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Sir Christopher Wren
Born East Knoyle, Wiltshire, died London. Designer of 54 London churches, of which 13 were destroyed in the Blitz. Part of one of his churches, St Antholin, has ended up in an unexpected location...
38 memorials
The Polygon
Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later...
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John Shaw, Jnr.
Born 25 Great James Street, Holborn. Father who was also an architect designed St Dunstans in the West. Junior also worked on St Dunstans but the building next door, number 187, is Junior's own. He...
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W. Gilbee Scott
William Gilbee Scott had a practice at 25, Bedford Row. The only building, apart from the How Gateway, we can find by him is the Salvation Army Citadel in Sheffield. 2016: via Facebook Neil Jacks...
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