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George Edmund Street
1824–1881
A leading voice in the Victorian Gothic Revival, he shaped churches, public buildings, and one of London’s best-known law courts. His work combined scholarship, energy, and a strong belief that medieval architecture still had something to teach the modern world.
3 Audiobooks
Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy
by George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers
by George Edmund Street
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain
by George Edmund Street
About the author
Born in Woodford, Essex, in 1824, George Edmund Street trained first with Owen Browne Carter in Winchester and later worked with George Gilbert Scott before opening his own practice. He became one of the best-known English architects of the High Victorian period and was especially admired for his deep knowledge of Gothic architecture.
Much of his career was devoted to church design and restoration, and he also traveled widely in Europe to study medieval buildings firsthand. Those studies fed into influential books on brick and marble architecture in Italy and on Spanish Gothic architecture, showing that he was not only a practicing architect but also a serious observer and writer.
Although he designed many churches, he is often remembered most widely for the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in London. He died in 1881, before seeing that great project fully settled in public memory, but his reputation as one of the major architects of the Gothic Revival has endured.