William Hosking
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William Hosking was an English writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and development of London in Victorian times. He became the first Professor of Architecture
The Royal Academy where Hosking exhibited in the 1820s
King's College, where Hosking was appointed Professor of Architecture
An illustration of a small Egyptian temple, from Hosking's chapter on "Architecture" in the Encyclopædia Britannica (offprint pub. 1832). Hosking was later chosen by the founders of Abney Park Cemetery to design a pair of similar temple lodges for its front entrance.
Abney Park Cemetery; every turn of the path reveals a new and unique landscape. (September 2005)
Abney Park Chapel
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Abney Park Chapel, is a Grade II Listed chapel, designed by William Hosking and built by John Jay that is situated in Europe's first wholly nondenominational cemetery, Abney Park Cemetery, London.
William Hosking
…detailing of Egyptian-revival temple lodges and frontage; he was also commissioned to design a similarly unique and impressive cemetery chapel. This, the Abney Park Chapel was to be the first non-denominational cemetery chapel in Europe, and quite probably the world (since its "sister" chapel at Mount Auburn was a later…
The dramatically soaring Abney Park Chapel
Hosking and Collison's inclusion of a semi-circular classical arch in an otherwise Gothic building helped symbolise the nondenominational concept of the cemetery – that it was open to all.