Gull takes John Netley, his coachman, sole confidant, and reluctant aide, on a tour of London landmarks ( including Cleopatra's Needle and Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches ), expounding about their hidden mystical significance, which is lost to the modern world themes had also been explored in detail by Moore's near contemporary Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor, published five years before From Hell.

The principal creative responsibility for a number of the churches is now more commonly attributed to others in his office, especially Nicholas Hawksmoor.

There is no doubt that Hawksmoor brought to the brilliant amateur the professional grounding he had received from Wren, but it is also arguable that Wren's architectural development was from the persuasion of his formal pupil, Hawksmoor.

In his novel Hawksmoor ( 1985 ) the historical Hawksmoor is refigured as the fictional Devil-worshiper Nicholas Dyer, while the eponymous Hawksmoor is a twentieth-century detective charged with investigating a series of murders perpertrated on Dyer's ( Hawksmoor's ) churches.

Hawksmoor is mentioned in " The History Boys " by Alan Bennett, p82, where Akthar is questioned by Mrs Lintott about his interest in architecture.

* There is a school in Towcester, Northamptonshire named Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary School for the architect.

Hawksmoor made a wooden model of his design which is in the Bodleian.

The present church on the site west of the town centre is St Alfege's Church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1714 and completed in 1718.

After the church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church Henry Aldrich designed a new church ; it is thought, however, that on some of the later features of the church, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Britain's great Baroque architects, is to be found, namely on the tower and spire.

The college is distinguished by its predominantly neo-classical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Limehouse Police Station is nearby, as is St Anne's Church, built by Nicholas Hawksmoor and boasting London's tallest church clock tower.

The building is next to St Anne's Limehouse, a significant Hawksmoor church ; and also adjacent to Limehouse Cut, a canal built to provide a short cut from the Lee Navigation to Limehouse Basin.

In 2002 Hawksmoor was the subject of an award-winning monograph by the architectural historian Vaughan Hart, which redefined Hawksmoor with new insights and discoveries.

The church had been built by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1727 in the fashionable Baroque style.

The building was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor ( Christopher Wren's greatest pupil ) and built between 1711 and 1715 to house the Press's printing operations.

In 1718, when Wren was superseded by the new, amateur Surveyor, William Benson, Hawksmoor was deprived of his double post to provide places for Benson's brother.

Unlike many of his wealthier contemporaries, Hawksmoor never travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour, where he might have been influenced by the style of architecture there.

The west towers of the Abbey were designed by Hawksmoor but was not completed until after his death.

The declining enthusiasm of the Commission, and the expense of the buildings, meant that only twelve churches were completed, six designed by Hawksmoor, and two by James in collaboration with Hawksmoor.

The six churches wholly designed by Hawksmoor are his best-known independent works of architecture.

Although Hawksmoor and John James terminated the commission by 1733, they were still being paid " for carrying on and finishing the works under their care " until James's death.

Luke's Old Street ( 1727-33 ), joint work with John James, tower by Hawksmoor

John's Horsleydown ( 1727-33 ), joint work with John James, tower by Hawksmoor, bombed in London Blitz then demolished

File: Westminster Abbey west facade. jpg | Westminster Abbey ( 1734-45 ), towers by Hawksmoor completed by John James

In King Charles II's reign, he was employ'd under Sir Christopher Wren, in the stately buildings at Winchester ; as he was likewise in all the other publick structures, Palaces & c, erected by that great Man, under whom he was assisting, from the Beginning ( factually wrong, Hawksmoor was 14 years old then ) to the Finishing of that grand and noble Edifice the cathedral of St. Paul's, and of all the churches rebuilt after the Fire of London.

Algernon Stitch lived in a " superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor " in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh ( 1938 ).

Hawksmoor was described in The Authority # 1 as the " God of Cities ", though a 2008 solo series called him the " King of Cities " by contrast with a future race of city-empathic figures who were Gods of Cities.

Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

* March 25 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect ( b. c. 1661 )

Category: Nicholas Hawksmoor buildings

Category: Nicholas Hawksmoor buildings

Category: Nicholas Hawksmoor buildings

Nicholas Hawksmoor ( probably 1661 – 25 March 1736 ) was a British architect born in Nottinghamshire, probably in East Drayton or Ragnall.

Thursday morning died, at this house on Mill-Bank, Westminster, in a very advanced age, the learned and ingenious Nicholas Hawksmoor, Esq, one of the greatest Architects this or the preceeding ( sic ) Century has produc'd.

*: Category: Nicholas Hawksmoor buildings

* Images relating to Nicholas Hawksmoor at the Country Life Picture Library

* Images relating to Nicholas Hawksmoor at the National Monuments Record, English Heritage

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