Thomas Knightley
Illustration — Plan drawn by Knightley for the Queen's Hall Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) was a British architect responsible for designing the Queen's Hall and St Paul's Church, Isle of Dogs in London.
Also recorded as Thomas Edward Knightley
Thomas Knightley
Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) · Reproduced in and scanned from Elkin, Robert (1944). Queen's Hall, 1893–1941. London: Rider. OCLC 636583612. · Public domain
- Born
- 1824
- Died
- 1905
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- architect
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Illustration — Plan drawn by Knightley for the Queen's Hall Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) was a British architect responsible for designing the Queen's Hall and St Paul's Church, Isle of Dogs in London.
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Knightley was sometimes considered eccentric; for example, he used the bodies of dead mice to act as a guide for the painters on the Queen's Hall, his preferred colour matching the shade of grey found on the mice's bellies.
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• Illustration — Queen's Hall, 1912 • Illustration — St Paul's, Isle of Dogs, 2006
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- 1.Rennison, Nick. The London Blue Plaque Guide. The History Press. 2015.
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