John Plaw

John Plaw (1745-1820) was an architect who was born in London but later emigrated to the Colony of Prince Edward Island in North America.

These are a circular villa built on Belle Isle, Windermere’s largest island, and St Mary on Paddington Green Church, which was designed in the shape of a Greek Cross and constructed between 1788 and 1791.

[2] A third property, The Round House in Romford, Essex, constructed between 1792-4, has also been attributed to Plaw.

[4] From 1775 – a year after completing plans for the villa on Belle Isle – he was exhibiting architectural drawings at the Royal Academy of Arts.

In the 1790s Plaw found work in Southampton and the Isle of Wight designing the military barracks which became the offices of the Ordnance Survey as well as nearby housing.