As a general rule in the 19th century, and to a slightly lesser extent afterwards, Anglican churches tended to be built by Anglican architects and Catholic churches by Catholic architects. The great Anglican ecclesiastical architects – George Frederick Bodley, William Butterfield, John Loughborough Pearson, Sir George Gilbert Scott and George Edmund Street – built no Catholic churches. The latter more often than not were built by the Catholic architectural dynasties of Pugin, Scoles, Hansom, Goldie and Scott.
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When Anglican architects built Catholic churches
as a general rule in the 19th century, and to a slightly lesser extent afterwards, anglican churches tended to be built by anglican architec...
Michael Hodges
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