William Burges
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William Burges was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclas
Burges in 1881
Burdett House, 15–16 Buckingham Street to the right of the York Water Gate. Burges had his home/studio in a building on the site of No.15.
All Saints Church, Fleet, in Hampshire, before an arson attack in 2015
Maison Dieu, Dover
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral
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Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire Church of Ireland cathedral in Cork city, Ireland. It is located on the south bank of the River Lee and dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron
William Burges
…Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement. Burges won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35. He died in 1881 at his Kensington home, The Tower House aged only 53. His architectural output was small but varied…
West façade
Photograph of the early stage of the construction, c. 1865
Gargoyle
Gargoyle