Christopher Ernest Tadgell (born 15 May 1939) is a British scholar of architectural history.
He taught for over thirty years, and following retirement continues to research, photograph, and write about architecture.
He was awarded his PhD in 1974 upon the completion of his thesis on the Neoclassical architectural theorist Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
Tadgell taught at the University of London and at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury, holding the F.L.
Morgan Professor of Architectural Design position at the University of Louisville, and membership of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Hellenic Classicism: The Ordering of Form in the Ancient Greek World.
The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilization to the End of the Raj.
The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Proto-typical Palace in the Age of Absolutism.
Reformations: From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion.
Tadgell, Christopher, Rita Sharma and Vijay Sharma.The Forts of India.