10 Facts About Thomas Hardwick

Thomas Hardwick was an English architect and a founding member of the Architects' Club in 1791.

Thomas Hardwick lived in Naples and then Rome for two years from 1776, filling his notebooks with sketches and measured drawings and gaining a grounding in classical architecture which was to influence his own neo-classical style.

Thomas Hardwick renewed his acquaintance with fellow Academy pupil John Soane.

Thomas Hardwick altered the design to create a suitably grand facade, with a Corinthian portico six columns wide, based on that of the Pantheon in Rome, and a steeple, its top stage in the form of a miniature temple, surrounded by eight caryatids.

Thomas Hardwick replicated it in more permanent materials, using Bath stone for the columns, and iron for the vaulted ceiling.

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Thomas Hardwick restored Inigo Jones's St Paul's, Covent Garden; he was appointed in 1788 and the eventual 10-year-long restoration project survived an almost disastrous fire in 1795 which destroyed much of Jones's original interior.

Thomas Hardwick was appointed Clerk of Works at Hampton Court by King George III, following which he work at Kew Palace and its gardens.

Thomas Hardwick was a founding member of the Architects' Club; but never became an Associate of the Royal Academy.

Thomas Hardwick's pupils included Samuel Angell, the Plymouth architect John Foulston designer of the Greek Revival style Plymouth Proprietary Library, and his own second son Philip Thomas Hardwick.

Thomas Hardwick died at his family home in central London's Berners Street, and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of St Laurence, Brentford.