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GEORGE EDMUND STREET (1824-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1007 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:EDMUND See also:STREET (1824-1881)  , See also:English architect, was See also:born at See also:Woodford in See also:Essex on the loth of See also:June 1824 . He was the third son of See also:Thomas See also:Street, See also:solicitor, by his second wife, See also:Mary See also:Anne Millington . See also:George went to school at See also:Mitcham in about 1830, and later to the See also:Camberwell collegiate school, which he See also:left in 1839 . For a few months he was in his See also:father's business in Philpot See also:Lane, but on his father's See also:death he went to live with his See also:mother and See also:sister at See also:Exeter . There his thoughts first turned to See also:architecture, and in 1841 his mother obtained a See also:place for him as See also:pupil in the See also:office of Mr See also:Owen See also:Carter at See also:Winchester . Afterwards he worked for five years as an " improver " with See also:Sir George See also:Gilbert See also:Scott in See also:London . At an See also:early See also:age Street became deeply interested in the principles of See also:Gothic architecture, and devoted an unsparing amount of See also:time and labour to studying and sketching the finest examples of See also:medieval buildings in See also:England and on the See also:Continent . His first See also:commission was for the designing of Biscoray See also:Church, See also:Cornwall . In 1849 he took an office of his own . He was a draughtsman of a very high See also:order; his sketches are masterpieces of spirit and brilliant See also:touch . In 1855 he published a very careful and well-illustrated See also:work on The See also:Brick and See also:Marble Architecture of See also:Northern See also:Italy, and in 1865 a See also:book on The Gothic Architecture of See also:Spain, with very beautiful drawings by his own See also:hand . Street's See also:personal See also:taste led him in most cases to select for his See also:design the 13th-See also:century Gothic of England or See also:France, his knowledge of which was very See also:great, especially in the skilful use of See also:rich See also:mouldings .

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majority of the buildings erected by him were for ecclesiastical uses, the See also:chief being the See also:convent of See also:East Grinstead, the theological See also:college at Cuddesden and a very large number of churches, such as St See also:Philip and St See also:James's at See also:Oxford, St See also:John's at See also:Torquay, All See also:Saints' at See also:Clifton, St Saviour's at See also:Eastbourne, St See also:Margaret's at See also:Liverpool and St Mary Magdalene, See also:Paddington . His largest See also:works were the See also:nave of See also:Bristol See also:Cathedral, the See also:choir of the cathedral of See also:Christ Church in See also:Dublin, and, above all, the new courts of See also:justice in London . The competition for this was prolonged and much diversity of See also:opinion was expressed . Thus, the See also:judges wanted Street to make the exterior arrangements and See also:Barry the interior, while a See also:special See also:committee of lawyers recommended the designs of See also:Alfred See also:Waterhouse . In June 1868, however, Street was appointed See also:sole architect; but the See also:building was not See also:complete at the time of his death in See also:December 188r . Street was elected an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy in 1866, and R.A. in 1871; at the time of his death he was See also:professor of architecture to the Royal Academy, where he had delivered a very interesting course of lectures on the development of medieval architecture . He was also See also:president of the Royal See also:Institute of See also:British Architects . He was a member of the Royal Academy of See also:Vienna, and in 1878, in See also:reward for drawings sent to the See also:Paris See also:Exhibition, he was made a See also:knight of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . Street was twice married, first on the 17th of June 1852 to Mariquita, second daughter of See also:Robert See also:Proctor, who died in 1874, and secondly on the 11th of See also:January 1876 to Jessie, second daughter of See also:William See also:Holland, who died in the same See also:year . The architect's own death, on the 18th of December 1881, was hastened by overwork and professional worries connected with the erection of the See also:law courts . He was buried on the 29th of December in the nave of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey .

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