Philip Charles Hardwick

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Philip Charles Hardwick was born in Westminster in London, the son of the architect Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) and grandson of architect Thomas Hardwick (junior) (1752–1825). His mother was also from an eminent architectural family, the Shaws. Philip Charles Hardwick's maternal grandfather was John Shaw Senior (1776–1832) and his uncle was John Shaw Jr (1803–1870).

Hardwick trained under his father and also Edward Blore. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1848 and 1854.{{cite web|author=Paul Johnson |title=Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892) |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/hardwickpc/bio.html |publisher=The Victoria Web |accessdate=28 September 2014 }}

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Hardwick worked in the City of London, where he became the leading architect of grandiose banking offices, mainly in an Italianate manner. He designed five City banks, including Drummond's in Trafalgar Square (1879–81), and was architect to the Bank of England from 1855 to 1883. He was employed outside London designing branch offices at Hull (1856) and Leeds (1862–65).

His best known work was the Great Hall of London's Euston railway station (opened on 27 May 1849). The Great Hall was demolished in 1962 to make way for construction of the current Euston Station building.Christopher, J. (2012). Euston Station Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited.

Hardwick, like his grandfather Thomas Hardwick, was the Surveyor to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and also a major benefactor. He was also an adviser in the new War Office and Admiralty competition of 1884. While he had been a favourite architect of Queen Victoria to design the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens but his design fell short with the advisory committee.

Arthur William Blomfield was Hardwick's pupil in 1852–55.{{Cite journal |last1=近藤存志 |last2=コンドウアリユキ |date=2016 |title=The Battle of the Styles in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure: Perpendicular, God-seeking Gothicism vs. Horizontally-extended, Secular Classicism |url=https://ferris.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/1832/files/11001537.pdf |journal=フェリス女学院大学キリスト教研究所紀要 |volume=1 |pages=77–89}}

Hardwick retired to Wimbledon and married in Bath in the early 1870s. Two of his sons went into the military and served in South Africa during the Boer War; one of them, Lieutenant Stephen Thomas Hardwick, was killed in gunfire during the battle of Tweefontein in 1901. Hardwick's daughter, Helen, married Sir Henry George Lyons (1864–1944), later a director of the Science Museum in London.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

Philip Charles Hardwick is buried alongside his father, Philip, and the Shaw family in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.{{Cite book |last=Matthews |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rqVWDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Philip+Charles+Hardwick%22&pg=PP1 |title=Who's Buried Where in London |date=2017-03-23 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78442-202-8 |pages=62 |language=en}}

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• The Queen's Hotel, Birmingham (1837-1857){{Cite journal |last=Hirst |first=Lisa |date=2020 |title=A Rather Messy Approach: Understanding the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, 1837–1857 |url=https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-abstract/33/1/16/5844069 |journal=Journal of Design History |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=16–33|doi=10.1093/jdh/epaa001 }}
• restoration of St Nicholas church, Durweston, Dorset (1847)
• Durham Town Hall (1849–1851){{NHLE|desc=Town Hall and Guildhall|num=1160184|accessdate=4 July 2020}}
• Adare Manor, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland (1850–1862)
• Rooms for the fourth Earl Spencer at Althorp (1851)
• restoration of St Mary's Church, Lambeth (1851–1852, now the Museum of Garden History)
• Great Western Royal Hotel at Paddington station (1851–54){{Cite journal |last=Perrett |first=David |date=February 2008 |title=I. K. Brunel in London |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/175035208X258257 |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |language=en |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=47–52 |doi=10.1179/175035208X258257 |issn=0372-0187}}{{Citation |last=Brindle |first=Steven |title=Paddington Station |date=2011 |work=Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859: Celebrating the Man and His Profession |pages=10–11 |url=https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/full/10.1680/ikb18061859ctmahp.42124.0002 |access-date=2024-05-01 |publisher=Thomas Telford Publishing|doi=10.1680/ikb18061859ctmahp.42124 |isbn=978-0-7277-4212-4 }}
• Chapel of Ease of St Saviour, Shotton, County Durham (1852–1854)
• St John's Church, Deptford (1855)
• Alterations on Uxbridge House, London (1855)
• parts of the Titsey Place estate in Surrey (1856)
• Sompting House (now Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School), Sompting, West Sussex, 1856{{cite web|last1=Hudson|first1=TP|title=History of Sussex|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp53-64|website=British History Online|publisher=Institute of Historical Research|access-date=15 September 2017|ref=fn,75}}
• redevelopment of Heslington Hall, near York (1850s)
• St John's Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland (constructed 1856–1861)
• Adhurst St Mary house, Petersfield, Hampshire (1858)
• new wings at the Greenwich Hospital School (now part of the National Maritime Museum) (1861–1862)
• Rendcomb House, now Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire, for Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1863)
• Rebuilt Madresfield Court for the 5th Earl of Beauchamp (1863)
• Royal Garrison Church, Aldershot (1863)
• Sovereign House (former Bank of England building), Park Row, Leeds (1864)
• 46–48 Lombard Street, London (1866)
• St Barnabas Church, Mayland, Essex (1867)
• Charterhouse School, near Godalming, Surrey (1872)
• St Edmund's School in Canterbury, Kent
• St Columba's College, Dublin{{cite web |title=HARDWICK, PHILIP CHARLES # - Dictionary of Irish Architects |url=https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/2389/HARDWICK%2C+PHILIP+CHARLES+%23#tab_works |website=www.dia.ie |access-date=30 November 2021}}

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