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BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTTERFIELD, See also:WILLIAM (1814—1900) , See also:English architect, was See also:born in See also:London, and educated for his profession at See also:Worcester, where he laid the See also:foundations of his knowledge of See also:Gothic See also:architecture. He settled in London and became prominent in connexion with the See also:Cambridge See also:Camden Society, and its See also:work in the improvement of See also:church See also:furniture and See also:art. His first important See also:building was St See also:Augustine's, See also:Canterbury (1845), and his reputation was made by All See also:Saints', See also:Margaret See also:Street, London (1859), followed by St See also:Alban's, See also:Holborn (1863), the new See also:part of Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford (1864), See also:Keble College, Oxford (1875), and many houses and ecclesiastical buildings. He also did much work as a restorer, which has been adversely criticized. He was a keen churchman and intimately associated with the English church revival. He had somewhat See also:original views as to See also:colour in architecture, which led to rather garish results, his view being that any See also:combination of the natural See also:colours of the materials was permissible. His private See also:life was retiring, and he died unmarried on the 23rd of See also:February 1900.

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