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   Who was Nicholas Hawksmoor?

   • Nicholas Hawksmoor (born c. 1661, probably at East Drayton, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died March 25, 1736, London) was an English architect whose association with Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh long diverted critical attention from the remarkable originality of his own Baroque designs for churches and other institutional buildings.

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   What did Nicholas Hawksmoor design?

   • On Wren’s death (1723), Hawksmoor became surveyor general (chief architect) of Westminster Abbey, the west towers of which were built (1734–45) to his design. Earlier (from 1692) he was responsible for various university buildings at Oxford. Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1714–29, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

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   What is Hawksmoor's architecture?

   • In its essentials, Hawksmoor's architecture is primarily a demonstration that in geometry lies the key to all order, all creation. One of his last designs to be realized (with modifications by its builder, Townesend) was the screen-wall and entrance at Queen's College, Oxford (1733–6), on the High Street. Bibliography

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   What influenced Hawksmoor's style of architecture?

   • This feeling for mass and movement, which Hawksmoor derived from his studies of Roman and medieval architecture, was the basis of the baroque spirit in English architecture.

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   Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661 – 25 March 1736) 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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   Mar 21, 2024 · Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect whose association with Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh long diverted critical attention from the remarkable originality of his own Baroque designs for churches and other institutional buildings.

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   Nicholas Hawksmoor was one of the 18th century’s most prolific architects; yet recognition for his strikingly unique designs has historically been dwarfed not only beneath the vast shadow of his tutor Sir Christopher Wren but also by a shadowy reputation– perpetuated by popular culture – of being intrinsically linked to the esoteric and ...

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   Jun 27, 2018 · Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736) was a leading English architect. His very original church designs are baroque in their monumentality and sense of mass. Nicholas Hawksmoor was born in Nottinghamshire, probably at Ragnall.

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   Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 to 25 March 1736) was an English architect and a leading figure of the English Baroque style. He worked with some of the principal architects of the time and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period.

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   Mar 8, 2016 · Hopkins, an architecture curator at the Royal Academy of Art, traces two arcs in his new book: Hawksmoor’s architectural career and his posthumous legacy, which went into a long decline before its recent and vigorous upturn.

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    Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, was Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey from 1723 but he is not buried in the Abbey nor does he have any memorial tablet. However his great contribution to the building is seen every day by millions of people.