George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA No. 100
ZAMORA ON THE DOURO
WITH AN ESSAY
BY GEORGIANA GODDARD KING
QUAM DILECTA TABERNACULA TUA DOMINE VIRTUTUM
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1916
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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
“ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof and the walls thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; every several gate was of one pearl. ”
I have written the memorial, brief enough and all inadequate, of a man who died more than thirty years ago, who lived a Tory and a High Churchman, who worked to revive Gothic architecture in England. His books are out of print, his occasional papers and pamphlets so entirely dispersed and forgotten that not even a bibliography can be recovered. His name goes unrecognized in general talk; his party is wasted to a wraith or transformed beyond recognition; his Church is menaced by Disestablishment in Wales, and Modernism on the Continent; his strong and sincere architecture is superseded by steel and concrete; yet no man ever less fought a losing fight, no figure ever less evoked regret or toleration. He prospered, but his personality made that a kind of happy consequence; he served God, but his genius made that a kind of crowning grace; he was an Englishman, but was that in no mean or halfway fashion. Rather, George Street embodied and expressed in his own temper the very genius of the northern kind.