Critical Views of G. E. Street’s Proposals for the Rebuilding of the Nave of Bristol Cathedral 1867

By Joseph Bettey and Julian Warren

Issue 22, Autumn 2010 pp 24-27

‘The restored nave of Bristol Cathedral was designed by George Edmund Street and has generally been regarded as an highly successful attempt to follow, without slavishly copying, the remarkably inventive architecture of the 14th-century chancel. Street was appointed as the architect of the proposed new nave’. In this article, Bettey and Warren look at how those involved raised the funding, and the details surrounding its completion and its function as a place of worship.

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