Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by George Edmund Street

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Last updated on November 14, 2024.

George Edmund Street, also known as G. E. Street, was 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 on the Strand in London.

English - Architect | June 20, 1824 - December 18, 1881

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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

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

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

George Edmund Street

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

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by George Edmund Street

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