Thomas Holt

Thomas Holt ( – 1624) was an English architect who designed a number of buildings at the University of Oxford.

Holt, a master carpenter and architect from either Halifax From 1613, he designed the great quadrangle of the examination schools there, now part of the Bodleian Library, introducing some new architectural features. Holt completed the schools quadrangle in 1624, the year of his death. Other buildings at Oxford are ascribed to him with less certainty, though he probably prepared designs for many of them.

Holt is registered as a privileged person in the university, aged 40, on 30 October 1618; he is described as "Faberlignarius Coll. Novi". He died on 9 September 1624, and was buried in the churchyard of Holywell parish church, Oxford, where a monument was erected in his memory. His daughter married Samuel Radcliffe, principal of Brasenose College.