Thomas Baldwin (1568,

Watford Watford () is a town and non-metropolitan district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne. Initially a smal ...

– 1641,

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) was

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from 1606 to 1641. Baldwin came from a family of Hertfordshire gentry. As Comptroller he seems to have been an administrator rather than an

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but did carry out a number of designs. He designed the Jesus Hospital at Bray, Berkshire for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers in 1623. He is known to have been consulted by the

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in 1632 about the Selden End of the

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and he was involved in the extension of Holland House in 1638-1640 by Henry Rich, Earl of Holland. There is a wall

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to him in the south aisle of St Peter's Church, Berkhamsted by

Nicholas Stone Nicholas Stone (1586/87 – 24 August 1647) was an England, English sculpture, sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I of England, James I, and in 1626 to Charles I of England, Charles I. During his ca ...

(1642).

References

* H.M. Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' (1997) 1568 births 1641 deaths 17th-century English architects Architects from Hertfordshire People from Watford 16th-century English people {{England-architect-stub