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John Francis Bentley
Architect of Westminster Cathedral
Av Peter Howell
Häftad, 2020
537 kr
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This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902), best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his daughter Winefride de l’Hôpital’s Westminster Cathedral and its Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and went to London to work in the office of Henry …
A.W.N. Pugin
Häftad, 2021
521 kr
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A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern British identity in the process. His church designs were vastly influential, and although he was staunchly …
George Edmund Street
Av Geoff Brandwood, Peter Howell m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This is the first monograph of George Edmund Street, a prolific High Victorian architect of churches and other buildings, the best known of which is the Royal Courts of Justice (the Law Courts). He was born in Essex and, after being articled in Winchester, worked in the office of George Gilbert …
E. W. Godwin
Av Aileen Reid
Häftad, 2026
475 kr
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The architect Edward William Godwin (1833-86) was described by Max Beerbohm as ‘the greatest of the aesthetes’. This and Godwin’s disdain for convention as the lover of Ellen Terry and friend of Oscar Wilde has helped to frame discussion of his buildings, furniture and decorative design. His early …
The Rogue Goths
R L. Roumieu, Joseph Peacock and Bassett Keeling
Häftad, 2024
475 kr
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Part of a generation that came to prominence in the 1860s, the ‘rogue architects’ are a byword for Victorian Gothic at its most wayward and flamboyant. Their work ranges from town halls to country houses and from hotels to churches. It has drawn much attention, both from contemporary observers and …
Matthew Digby Wyatt
Häftad, 2025
475 kr
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Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77) was a polymath – architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur. From his role as project manager to the Great Exhibition of 1851 to his final years advising the South Kensington Museum on its collections, he played a key part in mid-Victorian developments …
Edwin Rickards
Häftad, 2023
475 kr
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Edwin Rickards was the most flamboyant of Edwardian architects: his buildings were said by John Summerson to fizz like champagne. During a short working life, launched at the age of 25 by winning the competition to design Cardiff City Hall with his partners H.V. Lanchester and James Stewart, he …
