George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers

Chapter 28: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A memorial essay introduces a collection of unpublished notebooks, reprinted papers, and travel notes by a nineteenth-century architect, presenting close studies of ecclesiastical buildings across Italy, France, Germany, and the Iberian peninsula. The pieces combine personal recollection with technical description and stylistic analysis, recording on-site observations of cathedrals, parish churches, porches, rood-screens, and regional construction practices. Illustrations and measured details accompany discussions of Gothic form, liturgical fittings, and conservation, while appendices gather shorter antiquarian remarks and miscellaneous architectural fragments from various tours.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Inconsistencies between the Index and the text it referenced were resolved by changing the Index to match the text.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

In Footnote 3, the symbol following “openings of this kind” is a Maltese Cross.