75: Celebrating G E Street

Issue No. 75

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Architecture, travels and reputation

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Devey and the garden
Women of the Della Robbia factory

This edition of our membership magazine was published in March 2024 and features the following articles:

4 Street’s secular solutions

Andrew Saint reviews G.E. Street’s domestic and institutional architecture.

6 An architect abroad

Neil Jackson on G.E. Street’s journeys around mid-nineteenth-century Europe.

10 A labour of love

St Margaret’s Convent, explored by Kathrymn Ferry.

11 Revisiting my Law Courts’ days

David Brownlee reflects on his 1970s work on G.E. Street’s Law Courts.

13 Street fighting

Peter Howell on campaigning to protect G.E. Street’s buildings.

14 The Beaumont sisters of Birkenhead

Rowena Beighton-Dykes on the women of the Della Robbia factory.

16 Devey and the garden

Sara Tenneson on the significance of George Devey as a garden designer.

18 House notes

Moses Jenkins calls for respect for Victorian polychromatic architecture.

20 Casework

An update on the Society’s recent casework.

25 Case study

Award-winning Wingfield station.

26 Book reviews

New monograph on G.E. Street, Henry Holiday, the new ‘Pevsner’ for the Isle of Man, a guide to the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts in Cambridge and a study of architectural models.

30 News

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