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1822–1892) was an English architect.


Life

Philip Charles Hardwick was born in
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in London, the son of the architect
Philip Hardwick Philip Hardwick (15 June 1792 in London – 28 December 1870) was an English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere. Hardwick is probably best known for London's demolished Euston Arch ...
(1792–1870) and grandson of architect Thomas Hardwick (junior) (1752–1825). His mother was also from an eminent architectural family, the Shaws. Philip Charles Hardwick's maternal grandfather was John Shaw Senior (1776–1832) and his uncle was
John Shaw Jr John Shaw Jr. (1803–1870) was an English architect of the 19th century who was complimented as a designer in the "Manner of Wren". He designed buildings in the classical Jacobean fashion and designed some of London's first semi-detache ...
(1803–1870). Hardwick trained under his father and also
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. He exhibited regularly at the
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between 1848 and 1854. Philip Charles worked in the
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, where he became the leading architect of grandiose banking offices, mainly in an Italianate manner. He designed five City banks, including Drummond's in
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(1879–81), and was architect to the
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from 1855 to 1883. He was employed outside London designing branch offices at Hull (1856) and Leeds (1862–65). His best known work was the Great Hall of
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's
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(opened on 27 May 1849). The Great Hall was demolished in 1962 to make way for construction of the current Euston Station building. Hardwick, like his grandfather Thomas Hardwick, was the Surveyor to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and also a major benefactor. He was also an adviser in the new
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and
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competition of 1884. While he had been a favourite architect of
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to design the Albert Memorial in
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but his design fell short with the advisory committee.
Arthur William Blomfield Sir Arthur William Blomfield (6 March 182930 October 1899) was an English architect. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in ...
was Hardwick's pupil in 1852–55.


Family history

Hardwick retired to
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and married in
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in the early 1870s. Two of his sons went into the military and served in
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during the
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; one of them, Lieutenant Stephen Thomas Hardwick, was killed in gunfire during the
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in 1901. Hardwick's daughter, Helen, married Sir
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(1864–1944), later a director of the
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in London. Philip Charles Hardwick is buried alongside his father, Philip, and the Shaw family in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.


Notable projects

*restoration of St Nicholas church,
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,
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(1847) *
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(1849–1851) *
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, Adare, County Limerick,
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(1850–1862) *Rooms for the fourth Earl Spencer at Althorp (1851) *restoration of St Mary's Church,
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(1851–1852, now the Museum of Garden History) * Great Western Royal Hotel at Paddington station (1851–54) *Chapel of Ease of St Saviour, Shotton,
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(1852–1854) *St John's Church, Deptford (1855) *Alterations on Uxbridge House, London (1855) *parts of the Titsey Place estate in
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(1856) *Sompting House (now Sompting Abbotts), Sompting,
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(1856) *redevelopment of Heslington Hall, near
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(1850s) *
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,
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, Ireland (constructed 1856–1861) *Adhurst St Mary house, Petersfield, Hampshire (1858) *new wings at the Greenwich Hospital School (now part of the National Maritime Museum) (1861–1862) *For Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, Rendcomb House,
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(1863) *Rebuilt
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for the 5th Earl of Beauchamp (1863) * Royal Garrison Church,
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(1863) *Sovereign House (former Bank of England building), Park Row,
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(1864) *46–48 Lombard Street, London (1866) * St Barnabas Church Mayland,
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(1867 *
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, near
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, Surrey (1872) *
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in
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* St Columba's College, Dublin


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardwick, Philip Charles 1822 births 1892 deaths Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery 19th-century English architects People from Westminster Architects from London