[229]. Scott’s aspirations for architecture, in general more sympathetic than what he built, will be found in his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture, Present and Future, London, 1858.
[230]. Although Woodward’s death occurred in the same year 1861 that this club was begun, it is possible, even probable, that the original design was his.
[231]. See Nesfield, W. E., Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture ... in France and Italy, London, 1862.
[232]. The intentions of the church builders in this decade are well presented in Micklethwaite, J. T., Modern Parish Churches, their Plan, Design, and Furnishing, London, 1874.
[233]. An extraordinary example of the use of Victorian Gothic for a somewhat unexpected purpose was Columbia Market by H. A. Darbishire (1839-1908) set down in 1866-8 among the grim housing blocks that he built for the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. See Wilson, F. M., ‘Ypres at Bethnal Green’, Architectural Review, XCVI (1944), 131-4.
[234]. Godwin’s active and distinguished Victorian Gothic period concluded with the building of two castles in Ireland, Dromore at Pallaskenny for the Earl of Limerick in 1867-9 and Glenbegh in 1868-71. Burges was with him in Ireland when he designed Dromore, and its decorations and furnishings rival in elaboration and exceed in elegance what Burges did for Lord Bute at Cardiff and Castell Coch in these years. A row with the client for Glenbegh, who complained of drastic leakage, in which Godwin’s then partner Crisp deserted him, did Godwin much harm professionally. He was still a relatively important figure in the Late Victorian seventies, but more as a decorator than as an architect (see Chapter [12]).
CHAPTER 11 - Notes
[235]. At the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia the larger pavilions were all of iron and glass; and probably the most influential buildings were the British ones designed by Thomas Harris—no longer a wild ‘Victorian’—in a mode closely approaching Norman Shaw’s ‘Manorial’ mode (see Chapter [12]). However, the exhibition stimulated the publication of several books on the Colonial architecture of Philadelphia which played their part in preparing the way for a ‘Colonial Revival’ (see Chapters [13] and [15]).
[236]. Separate American editions of vols 2 and 3 did not appear promptly in 1853 in the way that of vol. 1 did in 1851. However, the three-volume American edition of 1861 was the first of the complete work.