George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street RAwas an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic revival. Though mainly an ecclesiastical architect, he is perhaps best known as the designer of the Royal Courts of Justice, in the Strand in London...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth20 June 1824
design way execution
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
churches essential necessary town
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
country taken men
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
character different distinctive
An absolutely different and distinctive character.
country character thinking
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
light church towns
In a town church the right place for the admission of light.