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G.E. Street
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(George Edmund Street, 1824–1881) Prolific architect of the later *Gothic Revival, responsible for the design of more than 250 buildings, the majority of them churches. Before setting up his practice he worked with George Gilbert *Scott, and younger men among his own assistants included William *Morris, Norman *Shaw and Philip *Webb. In 1866 he won a competition for the building by which he is best known, the *Law Courts in the Strand, but construction did not begin until 1874 and the great Gothic edifice was not completed until a year after Street's death. He had considerable influence on his contemporaries through two books illustrated with his own drawings: Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages (1865) and Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain (1865).
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