Information AboutThomas Archer |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT THOMAS ARCHER | |
| 1668 births | |
| archer, thomas | |
| 1743 deaths | |
| english architects | |
| baroque architects | |
| people from warwickshire | |
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His churches include St John's, Smith Square , Westminster , badly damaged in World War II, St. Paul's, Deptford and St Philip, Birmingham , now Birmingham Cathedral. Archer's secular works included Roehampton House in Surrey , Welford Park in Berkshire , and the Cascade House and the west front and broadly bowed pilastered north front at Chatsworth House . Between 1709-1711 Archer designed a Baroque Garden pavilion for Henry Grey, 1st Duke Of Kent at Wrest Park , Silsoe , Bedfordshire . After 1712 Archer designed Hurstbourne Priors in Hampshire for John Wallop (later Earl Of Portsmouth ). He remodelled St Mary's Church at Hale , Hampshire which also contains Archer Memorial designed by himself and carved by Sir Henry Cheere .1 He was a founding governor of the Foundling Hospital in London in 1739, but was not involved in the construction of the resulting building, completed circa 1750. The architect for that project was a Mr. Theodore Jacobsen . DOCUMENTED WORKS , 2007]]
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