Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) was a British

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responsible for designing the

Queen's Hall The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. From 1895 until 1941, it ...

and St Paul's Church, Isle of Dogs in London. Knightley was sometimes considered

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; for example, he used the bodies of dead mice to act as a guide for the painters on the Queen's Hall, his preferred colour matching the shade of grey found on the mice's bellies.

Gallery

File:Queen's Hall 1912 postcard.jpg, Queen's Hall, 1912 File:The_Space_(Isle_of_Dogs).jpg, St Paul's, Isle of Dogs, 2006

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knightley, Thomas 1824 births 1905 deaths 19th-century English architects