William Dickinson (architect)

Dickinson, along with Nicholas Hawksmoor, 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.^[2]

In the 1680s Dickinson underwent training with Wren at the Office of Works.^[2] He was employed on many buildings, notably Westminster Abbey, where he worked for Wren as Deputy Surveyor.^[1] Together with Wren he was responsible for the restoration of the exterior of the abbey.^[3]

Other buildings he worked on include:

• St Paul's Cathedral (1696–1711) (as measuring clerk)^[2]
• 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)^[1]
• Pembroke House, Whitehall^[4]
• Hampton Court Palace ^[4]

• Tim Benton, The Architecture of William Dickinson Junior, University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art, 1969), 108pp.