Henry Hakewill (4 October 1771 – 13 March 1830) was an English architect.

Early life

Henry Hakewill was born on 4 October 1771 to English painter and decorator John Hakewill and Anna Maria Cook. Hakewill was a pupil of John Yenn , and also studied at the

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, where in 1790 he was awarded a silver medal for a drawing of an aspect of

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Career

Hakewill began work on a country mansion and eventually had a large and flourishing practice, mostly concerned with country houses. In 1809, he was appointed architect to

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, where the gothic buildings and chapel are his designs. He also did work for the Radcliffe trustees at Oxford and the

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.Hakewill designed two notable

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buildings. Coed Coch, Dolwen, Denbighshire, Wales, a country house with a diagonally-placed portico (now demolished) and stair, was completed in 1804. St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London was built in 1824–7. (It was rebuilt after a fire in 1987.) From 1815 to 1816, Hakewill was also commissioned by Farnborough Hall to build a new coach-house and remodel the rose garden and path down to the cascade.

Personal life

On 14 November 1804, Hakewill was married to Anne Sarah Frith, daughter of Rev. Edward Frith of

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. They had seven children including: *

John Henry Hakewill John Henry Hakewill (1810–1880) was an English architect. He designed Stowlangtoft, Stowlangtoft Hall in Suffolk and restored many churches and other public buildings in East Anglia, Wiltshire and Nottinghamshire. Family Hakewill was the son ...

(1810–1880), architect * Edward Charles Hakewill (1816–1872), architect

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hakewill, Henry 1771 births 1830 deaths 19th-century English architects Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools