THE BICENTENARY OF G.E. STREET’S birth is on 20 June 2024, although you can be forgiven for not having noticed. Only the Victorian Society is celebrating with a special issue of their in-house magazine, The Victorian, a new monograph written by the late Geoff Brandwood, and a big dinner in St. James-the-Less, Pimlico, Street’s intensely atmospheric church south of Victoria Station.
Street owed his success as an architect to his great skill at drawing, evident at an early age, his training alongside William Butterfield as an architect in Sir George
