Hawksmoor, Nicholas (1661-1736), was an English architect. He was an assistant to the English architects Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh. The three became the finest architects of the Baroque period in England. In the early 1700’s, Hawksmoor designed many of the churches that replaced those destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. His church designs include Christ Church, Spitalfields; St. Mary Woolnoth; and St. George’s, Bloomsbury. He also designed the mausoleum in Castle Howard, Yorkshire, and parts of Queen’s College and All Souls College at Oxford University. Hawksmoor was born in Ragnall, Nottinghamshire. He died on March 25, 1736.
