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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Lesnes Abbey

Lesnes Abbey

Pronounced Lez-ness. Founded by Richard de Lucy, as a penance for his role in the murder of Thomas Becket. It never grew to any great size, and was closed by Cardinal Wolsey under a licence to supp...

Place, Architecture, Religion

1 memorial
Gerald Horsley

Gerald Horsley

Architect. Son of John Callcott Horsley. His best known buildings are in a Baroque style. He designed St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, and a few stations for the North Western Railway such a...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Bere Architects

Bere Architects

Founded by Justin Bere. The company specialises in designing low energy consuming buildings, known as 'passive houses'.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
James Knowles

James Knowles

Two architects, father (1806–1884) and son (1831-1908), with the same name, James Thomas Knowles, either could have been the architect for the Shakespeare plinth.

Person, Architecture

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Michael Ventris

Michael Ventris

Architect and decipherer of Linear B script.  While still at school he heard about the discovery of Knossos by Arthur Evans, and about the undeciphered Linear B script on the tablets. This mystery ...

Person, Architecture, History, Greece

1 memorial