Thomas ARCHER, of Hale

1669 - 23 May 1743?

• Name	Thomas ARCHER
  Suffix	of Hale
  Birth	1668/9	Umberslade Hall, Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Architect and courtier. 'Archer ranks as one of the masters of English baroque architecture, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for the palpable influence which came from his direct knowledge of recent work in Italy and probably Austria and Germany. His interiors especially have an intricate spatial organization without the heroic massiveness of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh, and he delighted in ?anti-logical? baroque motifs. These appear to have taken the fancy of several prominent provincial craftsmen?architects, including the Bastard brothers of Blandford and most notably Francis Smith, who, with his brother, had been the builder at Heythrop and Chettle. (Smith's dramatic Chicheley Hall of 1719?21, in Buckinghamshire, was for long attributed to Archer.) It was, however, a style which in metropolitan circles could not survive the dictatorship of Lord Burlington and the onset of Palladianism after 1715.' [Oxford DNB]
  Probate	30 May 1743	PCC
  Death	23 May 1743?
  Person ID	I672	Westover
  Last Modified	17 May 2015

  
  

  Father	Thomas ARCHER, of Umberslade,   c. 14 Jan 1619   bur. 25 Oct 1685 (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Anne LEIGH
  Family ID	F250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart