Quotes by George Edmund Street

About George Edmund Street:

George Edmund Street is perhaps best known as the designer of the Royal Courts of Justice, in the Strand in London.
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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.

George Edmund Street

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

George Edmund Street

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

George Edmund Street

We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.

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As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

George Edmund Street

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.

George Edmund Street

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Edmund Street
  • DescriptionEnglish architect
  • BornJune 20, 1824
  • DiedDecember 18, 1881
  • ProfessionArchitect
  • WorksChurch Of St. Margaret Of Antioch, Liverpool; Church Of The Resurrection And All Saints, Caldy; St. Mary's Church, Southampton; St James The Less, Pimlico
  • AwardsRoyal Gold Medal