Edward Schroeder Prior (1852–1932) was a British architect, instrumental in establishing the arts and crafts movement. He was one of the foremost theorists of the second generation of the movement, writing extensively on architecture, art, craftsmanship and the building process and subsequently influencing the training of many architects.
Prior in 1910
Home Place, Kelling (also known as Voewood)
Cambridge Medical School
The Moorings, West Bay, Bridport
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.
William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862
The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 in his Golden Type inspired by the 15th-century printer Nicolas Jenson. This chapter from The Stones of Venice was a sort of manifesto for the Arts and Crafts movement.
Pugin's house "The Grange" in Ramsgate, from 1843. Its simplified Gothic style, adapted to domestic building, helped shape the architecture of the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris, a textile designer who was a key influence on the Arts and Crafts movement