Francis Edwards
Illustration — St John's Hoxton in 1828 Francis Edwards (1784–1857) was a British architect of the Georgian and early Victorian periods, who worked extensively in the London area. Sir John Soane's foremost pupil, Edwards joined Soane's office at Lincoln's Inn Fields as an improver in 1806 and was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools two years later. His work, mostly neo-classical in style, is best known now for town planning and landscaping, but Edwards also oversaw construction of his celebrated and much copied design of St John's Church at Hoxton, and the Lion Brewery at Lambeth (demolished in 1949).
Francis Edwards
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- Born
- 1784
- Died
- 1857
- Nationality
- England
- Occupation
- architect
- Movements
- Neoclassical architecture
- Education
- Royal Academy Schools
- Known for
- St John the Baptist, Hoxton · Lion Brewery and London
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — St John's Hoxton in 1828 Francis Edwards (1784–1857) was a British architect of the Georgian and early Victorian periods, who worked extensively in the London area. Sir John Soane's foremost pupil, Edwards joined Soane's office at Lincoln's Inn Fields as an improver in 1806 and was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools two years later. His work, mostly neo-classical in style, is best known now for town planning and landscaping, but Edwards also oversaw construction of his celebrated and much copied design of St John's Church at Hoxton, and the Lion Brewery at Lambeth (demolished in 1949).
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Born in 1784, died in 1857.
Francis Edwards studied at Royal Academy Schools. The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are St John the Baptist, Hoxton and Lion Brewery, London.
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- 1.FreeBMD Entry Info.
- 2.Knightsbridge North Side: Parkside to Albert Gate Court, High Row. British History Online.
- 3."A Walk through Islington", London Parks & Gardens Trust
- 4.Royal Institute of British Architects
- 5.1235285.
- 6.Vauxhall Civic Society. Lion Brewery.
- 7.Jonathan Glancey on the decline of the British brewery. The Guardian. 7 January 2009.
- 8.RIBA. Architecture.com RIBA homepage.
- 9.National Archives. Will of Francis Edwards, architect, of Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex.
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