Inwood Henry William

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English architect remembered for his Greek Revival churches. He trained under, and subsequently worked with, his
father, William Inwood (c. 1771-1843), a surveyor. He visited Athens in 1819, subsequently publishing a description of the Erechtheion that became a standard work. He used his Athenian drawings and plaster casts for the design of the new St Pancras Church, a commission won in a limited competition and built at immense cost. While the configuration of the west front was developed from GIBBS's St Martin-in-the-Fields, the building's uncompromisingly neo-Greek character was established by an absence of internal vaulting and an archaeological approach to detail (much of it moulded in terracotta); sources were the Erechtheion (the caryatid porch and Ionic order), the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, and the Tower of the Winds. Criticized by COCKERELL for its "bad taste...ignorance and presumption", it was admired by others for its elegance and scholarship. The Inwoods designed two other London churches in Greek style, and several, inexpensively, in Gothic (St Mary, Somers Town, was used by I'll(liN in Contrasts to modern debasement). H. W. Inwood exhibited at the RA from 1809 and was a member of the Society of Antiquaries. He was shipwrecked on a journey to Spain.

Henry Inwood, St Pancras Church, London,1819-22

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