Thomas Knightley

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Thomas Edward Knightley (1824–1905) was a British architect responsible for designing the Queen's Hall and St Paul's Church, Isle of Dogs in London.

Plan drawn by Knightley for the Queen's Hall

Biography

Knightley was sometimes considered eccentric; 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.^[1]

Gallery

Queen's Hall, 1912
St Paul's, Isle of Dogs, 2006

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