George Edmund Street is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists George Edmund Street as British architect (1824-1881).
George Edmund Street was born at Woodford in 1824. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at Camberwell Collegiate School.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and art historian.
Among his best-known works are Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool, Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy and St Mary's Church, Southampton. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Royal Gold Medal.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
George Edmund Street died in 1881, aged 57. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool
- Notable work: Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy
- Notable work: St Mary's Church, Southampton
- Notable work: St James the Less, Pimlico
- Royal Gold Medal
- Trained at Camberwell Collegiate School
