Nicholas Hawksmoor
British architect (1661-1736) · Architects · Died at 75
Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.
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King William Block (1699-1702), Greenwich Hospital, west facade.
Easton Neston House, Northamptonshire (c.1695-1710); the flanking, secondary wings and cupola were never built
Clarendon Building (1712-13), Oxford, south front.
The west towers of Westminster Abbey
St George in the East (1714-29), east end
About this person
Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Part of his work has been correctly attributed to him only relatively recently, and his influence has reached several poets and authors of the twentieth century.
