Thomas Knightley

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

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

References

Rennison, Nick (2015). The London Blue Plaque Guide (4th ed.). London: The History Press.

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[1] Rennison, Nick (2015). The London Blue Plaque Guide (4th ed.). London: The History Press.