Biographical / Historical Note
William Butterfield (1814-1900) was a British architect known for the Gothic revival style
he championed. He studied with E. L. Blackburne and set up his own practice in 1840. A
member of the Cambridge Camden Society, later the Ecclesiastical Society, he contributed
designs to their journal The Ecclesiologist. Most of his work was for church
designs, apart from that for schools and colleges (Rugby School and Keble College Oxford),
and the Winchester County Hospital. Perhaps his best-known building is the All Saints
Church, Margaret Street, London (1849-1859). The Royal Institute of British Architects
awarded the Gold Medal to Butterfield in 1884.
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