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Butterfield's buildings include: 1842 Highbury Congregational Chapel (Cotham Church), Bristol; 1843 St John's Church, Jedburgh: lychgate; 1845 St Saviour's Church and vicarage, Coalpit Heath, south Gloucestershire, 1845 (Butterfield's first Anglican work) St Augustine's College, Canterbury, Kent, 1845
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- Royal Gold Medal (1884)
20 de feb. de 2024 · 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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The new buildings at Merton College, Oxford (Ecclesiologist, xix. 218), with restoration of the chapel, were entrusted to Butterfield in 1864, and in 1868 he carried out the Hampshire county hospital, which, with St. Michael's Hospital, Cheddar, is among the chief of his non-ecclesiastical works.
Overview. William Butterfield. (1814—1900) architect and designer. Quick Reference. (1814–1900). One of the most prolific and original English Gothic Revivalists, he was born in London, for a while worked with the Inwoods, and opened his own practice in 1840.
11 de jun. de 2018 · 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.
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's design for the church of All Saints, Margaret Street, in London, is credited with launching the High Victorian Gothic era in design - a style of building that proliferated throughout Britain and to every corner of the Empire in civic buildings and churches alike.