In 1711 Parliament passed the Act for Building Fifty New Churches in London. Only twelve were built and the six by Hawksmoor are remembered as some of his finest work. We illustrate four of the churches here, we have the others, St Mary Woolnoth and St George's Bloomsbury, but chose not to include them here. The churches were built between 1712 and 1729.

Clarendon Building, Oxford, part of the Bodleian Library designed by Hawksmoor between 1712-15.
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Christ Church, Spitalfields.
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St Alfege, Greenwich.
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St Alfege Greenwich.
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St Anne's, Limehouse.
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St George-in-the-East.
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Among Hawksmoor's best known works are his collaborations with Sir John Vanbrugh on Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, this is the imposing Mausoleum at Castle Howard (1729).
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The north quadrangle of All Souls College, Oxford, completed in 1735.
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The west towers of Westminster Abbey. Built in a gothic style to blend in with the existing building, though the foundation of the Abbey is credited to Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century. Construction of the Abbey seems to have proceeded in fits and starts for over seven hundred years. Hawksmoor's completion of the west towers in 1745 left the Abbey pretty much as we see it today.
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