William Inwood (c.1771–16 March 1843) was an English architect and surveyor.
Inwood was born in about 1769. His father, Daniel Inwood, was bailiff to Lord Mansfield, at Kenwood, Highgate, then just north of London.
He was steward to Lord Colchester,[1] and clerk of the works to the scheme of improvements around the Palace of Westminster.[2]
His most notable works are the churches built in the parish of St Pancras, all designed in collaboration with his eldest son, Henry William Inwood (1794–1843). They include the neo-classical St Pancras New Church (1819–22), All Saints, Camden Town (1822–4), and St Peter's, Regent Square (1822–5, demolished), and the Gothic St Mary's Chapel, Somers Town (1824–7). At the Royal Academy in 1838 they jointly exhibited a design for an Ionic temple then under construction at Clandon Park, Surrey.[3][4]
With a younger son, Charles Frederick (1799–1840), he designed the Westminster Hospital (1832–33) in Broad Sanctuary in a Tudor Gothic style.[1]
He was the author of the Tables for the Purchasing of Estates, Freehold, Copyhold, or Leasehold, Annuities, &c, a work based on the tables of Baily and Smart, first published in 1811 and frequently revised and reprinted.[1]