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A memorial essay introduces a collection of unpublished notebooks, reprinted papers, and travel notes by a nineteenth-century architect, presenting close studies of ecclesiastical buildings across Italy, France,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.
I have to thank Arthur Edmund Street, Esq., of London, for the generous loan of some notebooks and drawings, and through these for a more intimate knowledge of his great father’s fine temper and manly art.
Bryn Mawr, Epiphany, 1915