Philip Charles Hardwick
Philip Charles Hardwick (1822-1892), son of architect Philip Hardwick, was the last architect in the family line and is reputed to have designed many of the finest banks in the City of London - Hardwick was architect to the Bank of England from 1855 to 1883.
His best known work was the Great Hall of Euston station (opened on 27 May 1849). The Great Hall was demolished in 1962 to make way for construction of the current Euston Station building.
Projects
- parts of Lincoln's Inn (with his father, 1843-1845)
- restoration of St Nicholas church, Durweston, Dorset (1847)
- Durham indoor market, guildhall, town hall and market tavern (1849-1851)
- Adare Manor, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland (1850-1862)
- restoration of St Mary's Church, Lambeth (1851-1852, now the Museum of Garden History)
- Chapel of Ease of St Saviour, Shotton, County Durham (1852-1854)
- St John's Church, Deptford (1855)
- parts of the Titsey Estate in Surrey (1856)
- Sompting House, Sussex (1856)
- redevelopment of Heslington Hall, near York (1850s)
- St John's Cathedral, Limerick, 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)
- Rendcomb House, Rendcomb, Gloucestershire (1863)
- All Saints Church, Aldershot (1863)
- Sovereign House (former Bank of England building), Park Row, Leeds (1864)
- 46-48 Lombard Street, London (1866)
- Great Western Royal Hotel at Paddington station (1851-54)
- Charterhouse School, near Godalming, Surrey (1872)
- St Edmund's School in Canterbury, Kent
Website in memory of the Hardwicks - www.shaw-hardwick.co.uk