Nicholas Hawksmoor | |
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| Born | c. 1661 Nottinghamshire, England |
| Died | 25 March 1736 (aged 75) |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | Easton Neston Mausoleum Castle Howard Christ Church, Spitalfields St George's, Bloomsbury St Mary Woolnoth St George in the East St Anne's Limehouse St Alfege Church, Greenwich All Souls College, Oxford The Queen's College, Oxford Worcester College, Oxford West Towers of Westminster Abbey |
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. 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.