T. P. (Thomas Phillips) Figgis (1858–1948) was a British architect working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work included private houses as well as public buildings. T. Phillips Figgis was the second son of Thomas Gilbert Figgis from Dublin, Ireland, and his wife Margaret Phillips. Some of his best-known works are the original station buildings for the

City & South London Railway The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction. The railway was originally intended for cable-hauled trains, but owing ...

(C&SLR, now part of London Underground's Northern line) which opened in 1890. Figgis designed the stations at

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, Oval,

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, Elephant and Castle and Borough. When the C&SLR was extended, he later designed a station at Clapham North and the station and C&SLR's offices at Moorgate. Most of Figgis's buildings for the C&SLR have been replaced or substantially altered; only Kennington (with minor alterations) and Moorgate remain. Other railway buildings he designed included the four new stations on the Meon Valley Railway. Droxford station 2016

He undertook several commissions for the

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, including St Columba's Church, in

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, Oxford (now a United Reformed Church), an extension to St Paul's Church,

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, and St Ninian's Church, Golders Green (now a Hindu temple). He was the architect of Stotfold, a 1907 listed Arts & Crafts house in Bickley, Kent.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Figgis, T.P 1858 births 1948 deaths Architects from Dublin (city) British railway architects Transport design in London People associated with transport in London British people of Irish descent