Henry William Inwood
British architect and scholar
About Henry William Inwood
Lived 1794 – 1843 (aged 48–49). Henry William Inwood was a British architect, classical scholar and archaeologist.
Henry William Inwood (22 May, 1794 – 20 March, 1843) The design drew closely on Ancient Greek models, imitating elements from the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds in Athens. Inwood collaborated with E.N. Clifton on two churches: the Gothic St. Stephen, Canonbury (1837-9), and the Neoclassical St James Islington (1837-8)
In 1834 he published a pamphlet entitled Of the Resources of Design in the Architecture of Greece, Egypt, and other Countries, obtained by the Studies of the Architects of those Countries from Nature, which suggested that the flutings of Doric columns were taken from reeds, mineral formations or seashells; that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in imitation of the cocoons of moths, and that the image of the sphinx was inspired by a butterfly chrysalis.
Inwood died in a shipwreck on a journey to Spain when the ship he was in sank with no survivors.
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British architect and scholar
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