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E. Bassett Keeling, architect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

James Stevens Curl  and
John Sambrook
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Extract

Much has been written concerning those Victorian architects who, for one reason or another, have been considered seriously by scholars and critics. A great deal of the fabric of Victorian cities, however, was designed by men who have been largely dismissed by commentators. This paper considers the career of one of those placed by Goodhart-Rendel in the category of ‘Rogue Architects’. The story is in many ways a tragic one, and is perhaps not atypical of many other architects in the nineteenth century.

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Architectural History , Volume 16 , 1973 , pp. 60 - 69
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1973

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