Editing Nicholas Hawksmoor (section)

=== Work at Oxford and Cambridge ===
As he neared the age of 50, Hawksmoor began to produce work for the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In 1713 he was commissioned to complete [[King's College, Cambridge]]:{{sfn|pp=23 to 27|Doig|1979}} the scheme consisted of a Fellows' Building along [[King's Parade]], and opposite the Chapel a monumental range of buildings containing the Great Hall, kitchens and to the south of that the library and Provost's Lodge. Plans and wooden models for the scheme survive, but it proved too expensive and Hawksmoor produced a second scaled down design. But the college that had invested heavily in the [[South Sea Company]] lost their money when the "bubble" burst in 1720. As a result, Hawksmoor's scheme was never executed; instead, the college was developed later in the 18th century by [[James Gibbs]] and early in the 19th century by [[William Wilkins (architect)|William Wilkins]]. In the 1690s, Hawksmoor gave proposals for the library of [[The Queen's College, Oxford]]. However like many of his proposals for both universities, such as [[All Souls College, Oxford]], the [[Radcliffe Library]], [[Brasenose College, Oxford]], [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], the library was not executed.

Hawksmoor conceived grand rebuilding schemes for central [[Oxford]], most of which were not realised. Surviving drawings from c.1713 propose the rebuilding of the central core of the academic area of Oxford as a ''Forum Universitatis''.{{sfn|Tyack|1998|p=168}} The concept for a domed circular library sitting within an open square for the Radcliffe Camera was initially Hawksmoor's, but the commission for the building eventually went to [[James Gibbs]], due to Hawksmoor's untimely death. He designed the [[Clarendon Building]] at Oxford; the [[Codrington Library]] and new buildings at All Souls College, Oxford; parts of [[Worcester College, Oxford]] with Sir [[George Clarke]]; the [[High Street, Oxford|High Street]] screen at The Queen's College, Oxford and six new churches in London. Hawksmoor was initiated into [[freemasonry]] in 1730 at the Oxford Arms in [[Ludgate Street]], City of London, a lodge belonging to the [[Premier Grand Lodge of England]].{{sfn|Berman|2010|p=140}}