George Edmund Street Quotes

An absolutely different and distinctive character.
George Edmund Street

Character, Different, Absolutely

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

Country, Necessary, Importance

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

Success, Good, Failure

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

Design, Whether, Necessary

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

Men, Country, Between

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

York, Towns, Bristol

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Architect

Born: June 20, 1824

Died: December 18, 1881

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