Street, George Edmund (1824–1881)

English Victorian architect. He travelled widely in Europe, and was a pupil of Gilbert Scott. He practised in Oxford from 1852, where Webb and Morris were among his assistants, before moving to London 1855. He designed and restored hundreds of churches in a vigorous, continental Gothic Revival style, notably St James the Less, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London (1860–61), and St Philip and St James, Oxford (1860–62).

His principal secular work is the Law Courts, the Strand (won in competition 1866; opened 1882), the foremost Gothic Revival building in England after the Houses of Parliament. It has a vaulted Great Hall 70 m/230 ft long, 15 m/48 ft wide, and 25 m/82 ft high.

He was deeply religious and his many churches include All Saints, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead (1854–59); St Saviour, Eastbourne (1867–68); All Saints, Clifton, Bristol (1863–68); St John, Torquay (1861–71); and St Mary Magdalen, Paddington, London (1868–78). He wrote and illustrated Brick and Marble in North Italy (1855), and Gothic Architecture in Spain (1865).