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Royal Gold Medal (1884) Buildings. St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in Scotland, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in Australia. Projects. Keble College, Oxford. William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900) was a British Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement).
William Butterfield was a British architect who was prominent in the Gothic Revival in England. Sometimes called the Oxford movement’s most original architect, Butterfield introduced an architectural realism that included a clear expression of materials in colourful contrasts of textures and.
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His non-religious buildings included the Royal Hampshire Hospital and buildings for Keble College, Oxford and Rugby School. A feature of Butterfield's architectural style was his bold use of polychrome brickwork and stone, and the extensive amount of marquetry work in the interior of his buildings.
Butterfield, William (1814–1900), architect, the son of William Butterfield, by his wife Ann, daughter of Robert Stevens, was born in the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, on 7 Sept. 1814. His first architectural education was received in an office at Worcester, where a sympathetic head clerk of archæological tastes encouraged him in ...
Butterfield was appointed architect, and designed the church, clergy-house, and school of All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59). The buildings were urban in character, of polychrome brickwork, and considerably influenced by Continental Gothic precedents.
The church was designed by the architect William Butterfield and built between 1850 and 1859. It has been hailed as Butterfield's masterpiece [1] and a pioneering building of the High Victorian Gothic style that would characterize British architecture from around 1850 to 1870.
10 de mar. de 2017 · He does not care to produce showy buildings at a sacrifice — even a justifiable sacrifice — of constructive strength. To the pretty superficial school of Gothic, busy with pinnacles, chamfers, and fussy carving, he has never condescended.
