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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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   • Born: c. 1661, Nottinghamshire, England

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   Mar 21, 2024 · 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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   Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches – crimes that make no sense to the modern mind.

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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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7. www.encyclopedia.com › nicholas-hawksmoorNicholas Hawksmoor | Encyclopedia.com

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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. Architect. 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.

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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 happened to Nicholas Hawksmoor?

   • Rehabilitation of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s architectural merit has been slow to come but in the last few decades, greater interest in his inimitable style, and appreciation for the eclectic bricolage his designs engendered has resurfaced, with many of his churches being conserved or saved from demolition.

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   Was Nicholas Hawksmoor esoteric?

   • Largely forgotten after his death, it was his purported esoteric leanings that fired the imagination of Welsh writer Iain Sinclair who produced a work entitled Lud Heat (1975), which featured a poem ‘Nicholas Hawksmoor: His Churches’, which: ‘…explores mysterious cartographic connections between the six Hawksmoor churches in London.

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10. www.architectmagazine.com › practice › why-nicholasWhy Nicholas Hawksmoor's Revival Matters | Architect Magazine

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    Mar 8, 2016 · Why Nicholas Hawksmoor's Revival Matters. The British architect who collaborated with Wren and designed some of London's grandest churches finally gets his due. By Amanda Kolson Hurley. The Courtland Institute of Art A bust of Nicholas Hawksmoor by his contemporary, Henry Cheere. Artistic reputations often rise, fall, and shift over time.