Thomas Stent

Thomas Stent (1822-1912)[1] was a British-born architect who worked professionally in Canada and the United States.

[2] Stent was born in 1822[3] and trained in England, and practised there before traveling to London, in what was then Canada West, in 1855.

[4] At Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the team of Thomas Stent and Augustus Laver (1834-1898), under the pseudonym of Stat nomen in umbra, won the prize for the second category, which included the new Canadian parliamentary buildings of the East and West Blocks.

[5] These proposals were selected for their sophisticated use of Gothic architecture, which was thought to remind people of parliamentary democracy's history.

It was unusually large topped by a tall dome, more resembling a typical state or national capitol than a city hall.