George Edmund Street
Geoff Brandwood(ed Peter Howell and Peter Taylor)
Historic England and The Victorian Society, £40, 312 pages
George Edmund Street (1824-1881) was nothing if not a deeply devout High Church Anglican. He was Vicar’s Warden at All Saints, Margaret Street, from 1867 to 1871, and his numerous churches were predominantly built for Anglo-Catholic patrons. The Catholic Pugin was obviously a profound influence on this determined Gothicist and the equally Catholic Leonard Stokes worked in Street’s studio in the 1870s. The only Catholic competition he submitted a design for was a rather unsatisfactory one for Lille Cathedral.
