Necessary Quotes by George Edmund Street

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

— George Edmund Street

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that…

— George Edmund Street

We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.

— George Edmund Street

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

— George Edmund Street

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

— George Edmund Street

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when…

— George Edmund Street

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

— George Edmund Street