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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.
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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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.
Jun 27, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of the most imaginative English Baroque architects. He designed six of the most original churches in London, as well as country houses, palaces, and mausoleums.
Apr 13, 2016 · In 1985 a strange and deeply haunting novel appeared, one with which the early-18th-century British architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, is now inextricably associated. On one level the connection was assured as soon as the book’s author Peter Ackroyd used Hawksmoor’s name for the title.
Mar 8, 2016 · Learn about the life and work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, the master of the English Baroque who collaborated with Wren and Vanbrugh. Discover how his reputation rose and fell over time, and how his churches inspired preservationists and writers.
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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