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William Dickinson (c.1670 − 24 January 1724) was an
Dickinson younger married Elizabeth, with whom he had a son, also called William.
He died in 1724 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His gravestone in the north porch reads: "Here lies William Dickinson, architect. What sort of architect! Look upwards. Died 24 of January A.D. 1724 aged 54".
William Dickinson (c.1670 − 24 January 1724) was an English
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architect.
Life
Dickinson was the son of William Dickinson, Controller Clerk atWindsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
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and chief clerk of the king's works. This elder Dickinson died in 1702 and according to Adrian Tinniswood his "sole contribution to architecture" was to be Chief Clerk of the Works.
Dickinson younger married Elizabeth, with whom he had a son, also called William.
He died in 1724 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His gravestone in the north porch reads: "Here lies William Dickinson, architect. What sort of architect! Look upwards. Died 24 of January A.D. 1724 aged 54".
Work
Dickinson, along withNicholas Hawksmoor
Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principa ...
, Edward Woodroffe and John Oliver, worked under Sir Christopher Wren, the Chief Surveyor on the commission to rebuild London churches after the Great Fire of 1666.
In the 1680s Dickinson underwent training with Wren at the Office of Works
The Office of Works was established in the English royal household in 1378 to oversee the building and maintenance of the royal castles and residences. In 1832 it became the Works Department forces within the Office of Woods, Forests, Land Reven ...
. He was employed on many buildings, notably Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the Unite ...
, where he worked for Wren as Deputy Surveyor. Together with Wren he was responsible for the restoration of the exterior of the abbey.
Other buildings he worked on include:
* St Paul's Cathedral (1696–1711) (as measuring clerk)
* Greenwich Hospital (as clerk of works)
*Windsor Castle (he succeeded his father's role as clerk of works)
* St James's Palace (as clerk of works)
*Pembroke House, Whitehall
Pembroke House, located on Whitehall, was the London residence of the earls of Pembroke.
History
It was built by the architect earl Henry Herbert in 1723–24 (under Colen Campbell and latterly his assistant Roger Morris), on ground leased by ...
* Hampton Court Palace
Bibliography
*Tim Benton, ''The Architecture of William Dickinson Junior'', University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art, 1969), 108pp.References
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