George Edmund Street

• Verfasst von: Brandwood, Geoff [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: George Edmund Street
• Mitwirkende: Howell, Peter [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Taylor, Peter C. W. [HerausgeberIn]
• Institutionen: Historic England [Herausgebendes Organ]
• Verf.angabe: Geoff Brandwood ; editors Peter Howell, Peter CW Taylor
• Verlagsort: Liverpool
• Verlagsort: [London]
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press on behalf of Historic England
• Verlag: The Victorian Society
• Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xi, 300 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Victorian architects
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-812-1
• ISBN: 1-80207-812-6
• Schlagwörter: (p)Street, George Edmund
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Architecture victorienne - Angleterre - Histoire
• Sach-SW: Architecture chrétienne - Angleterre - Histoire - 19e siècle
• K10plus-PPN: 1893935353

Abstract

This is the first monograph of George Edmund Street, a prolific High Victorian architect of churches and other buildings, the best known of which is the Royal Courts of Justice (the Law Courts). He was born in Essex and, after being articled in Winchester, worked in the office of George Gilbert Scott before setting out on his own account. His earliest works were in Cornwall, but he went on to design many churches, parsonages and schools in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, having been appointed Oxford diocesan architect. Moving to London opened up commissions far and wide, as far north as Aberdeenshire, and also abroad. He paid great attention to the fittings and furnishings of his churches, taking a particular detailed interest in stained glass and embroidery. He was renowned for always completing all his own drawings personally, to the frustration of his pupils and assistants, including Philip Webb and Norman Shaw, who successively became his chief assistant before branching out on their own. His early death at the age of 57 is often attributed to the strain of building the Law Courts, which were completed after his death