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George Edmund Street
June 20, 1824 - December 18, 1881
Nationality: English
Category: Architect
Subcategory: English Architect

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.

   

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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