Why there has been no Street life

Charles Saumarez Smith on Architecture

THE BICENTENARY OF G.E. STREET’S birth is on 20 June 2024, although you can be forgiven for not having noticed. Only the Victorian Society is celebrating with a special issue of their in-house magazine, The Victorian, a new monograph written by the late Geoff Brandwood, and a big dinner in St. James-the-Less, Pimlico, Street’s intensely atmospheric church south of Victoria Station. Street owed his success as an architect to his great skill at drawing, evident at an early age, his training alongside William Butterfield as an architect in Sir George Gilbert Scott’s office, where he helped with the drawings which enabled Scott to win the competition for the new Nikolaikirche in Hamburg, and his involvement with the Cambridge Camden Society, including friendship with its secretary, Benjamin Webb. It was Webb…

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