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5 unusual facts about Edward William Godwin


Bedford Park, London

The first architect for the estate was Edward William Godwin a leading member of the Aesthetic Movement, but his plans came in for some criticism in The Builder, the leading professional journal of its day, and Godwin and Carr parted company.

Cotham, Bristol

The apse, tower, south transept and school were added in 1863 by Edward William Godwin.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.

Terry family

Edith Craig (1869–1947) and Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), illegitimate children of Ellen Terry and her partner, Edward William Godwin (1833–1886).

Tite Street

Whistler instructed Edward William Godwin to build the White House here, but due to his bankruptcy after his legal case with John Ruskin, he was never able to occupy it; the building was demolished in 1968.



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