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Finding aid for the William Butterfield architectural and design drawings, 1838-1896, undated 850998. Alan Tomlinson and J. Gibbs. Special Collections. 2006. 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100. Los Angeles 90049-1688. Business Number: (310) 440-7390. Fax Number: (310) 440-7780. reference@getty.edu.
William Butterfield. The son of a chemist, William Butterfield was born in London in 1814, one of nine children. His parents were strict non-conformists who ran a chemist's shop in the Strand. He was educated at a local school before being apprenticed to Thomas Arber, a builder in Pimlico, who later became bankrupt.
William Butterfield had little more than 100 square feet of real estate, but designed perhaps the greatest example of High Victorian Gothic architecture. The spire soars 227 feet above London and its interior is a kaleidoscope of color and pattern that expresses the vision of the Oxford Movement and the Ecclesiological Society.
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- Beth Harris,Steven Zucker
2 de mar. de 2019 · Since Keble was founded by Butterfield's pious High Church friends for clerical students, the chapel, which was added to the group in 1873-6, understandably dominates the whole. Tall and richly decorated, this has many of Butterfield's virtues, but it quite lacks the directness and the poignance of his best work of the fifties and early sixties.
William Butterfield. Gran Bretaña | 1814-1900. 1857 | 43 años Balliol College, Oxford Chapel Oxford | Gran Bretaña: 1858 | 44 años Milton Ernest Hall
11 de abr. de 2016 · 10 ‘The Life and Work of William Butterfield’, Architect, 83 (1910), pp. 129-30 and 145-47 (pp. 145-46). Swinfen Harris refers (p. 145) to Butterfield’s ‘forceful methods as an admirable and voluminous correspondent; he not only wrote long and very scholarly letters, but every word of them had its due place, weight and measure most exactly apportioned’.
William Butterfield died in 1900 and was buried in Tottenham Cemetery, Haringey. His house in Bedford Square, London, has been recognised with a blue plaque which simply states 'William Butterfield, 1814-1900, Architect lived here'. It seems a shame that a man who so influenced architecture throughout the Victorian era is so little remembered.
