George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street — George Edmund Street studied at Camberwell Collegiate School. the recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture. Positions recorded include President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Membership is recorded of Royal Academy of Arts. Works named in the authority record are Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool, Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, St Mary's Church, Southampton and St James the Less, Pimlico. Work by George Edmund Street is recorded in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum and Yale Center for British Art. Distinctions recorded are Royal Gold Medal. The heading is also recorded as G. E. Street. George Edmund Street is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q5538851. George Edmund Street died in 1881 at London. George Edmund Street is recorded with the citizenship of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also recorded that george Edmund Street is recorded as architect and art historian.

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Identity and overview

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

George Edmund Street is recorded in the structured authority under the identifier Q5538851. The register further records that george Edmund Street is recorded with the citizenship of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Works and production

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count.

Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy is dated 1907. playground railings to St James the Less parish rooms is dated 1861. Institutional cataloguing adds that wikidata Query Service catalogues 40 works under this heading. Institutional cataloguing adds that open Library catalogues 23 works under this heading.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues 1 work under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 7 works under this heading. Designs executed for Jones and Willis, metal and wood-workers and church furniture manufacturers of Birmingham and London is catalogued and held by Yale Center for British Art (inventory B1977.14.1226). It is also recorded that design for Polychromatic Decoration of a Church is catalogued and held by Yale Center for British Art (inventory B1975.2.382).

Collections and holdings

Institutional holdings are recorded as follows.

Street 1869. Some Account Of Gothic Arch. In Spain (1869) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. It is also recorded that george Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers (1916) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. It is also recorded that journal of the Society of Arts, Vol. 17, no. 863 (1869) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain, Volume 2 (1914) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. It is also recorded that the Metropolitan Museum of Art records 110 objects associated with this name. It is also recorded that yale Center for British Art records 41 objects associated with this heading. It is also recorded that the Metropolitan Museum of Art records 110 objects associated with this heading.

Wellcome Collection records 70 objects associated with this heading.

Sources and evidence

This entry is compiled from 12 catalogued sources across 7 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, DOAJ and Wellcome Collection. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

In detail

George Edmund Street studied at Camberwell Collegiate School. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is architecture.

Positions recorded include President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Membership is recorded of Royal Academy of Arts.

Works named in the authority record are Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Liverpool, Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, St Mary's Church, Southampton and St James the Less, Pimlico.

Work by George Edmund Street is recorded in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum and Yale Center for British Art.

Distinctions recorded are Royal Gold Medal.

Connections

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Died at

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Sources

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  1. 1.

    A. E. Street, Memoir of George Edmund Street (1888), British Architecture 1760–1914, 2023

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  2. 2.

    George Edmund Street, Scientific American, 1886

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Open Library author record for George Edmund Street (Internet Archive), 13 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  4. 4.

    Street, George Edmund (1824–1881), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Street, George Edmund (1824–1881)., Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture, 2019

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Street, George Edmund, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q5538851: George Edmund Street

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation

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  8. 8.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 1 article naming George Edmund Street.

    open access index · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Internet Archive, 13 digitised items catalogued under George Edmund Street as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  10. 10.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with George Edmund Street (110 objects).

    museum collection · Unverified · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  11. 11.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 70 works naming George Edmund Street.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  12. 12.

    “George Edmund Street”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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