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...
Founded by William Morris, Philip Webb and others associated with the Pre-Raphaelites to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian arch...
RBKC and British History Online have a lot of information about the creation of this square, with plans and drawings.
Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Neve...
A London-based idiosyncratic architecture practice. The picture we have used is from their page about the Aldgate project.
At Arts and Humanities Research Council we found a brief biography of Leonard (1914-2004) which includes: "In 1951 he and his family moved to Bedford Park, Chiswick (the first garden suburb) where ...
