It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

About George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival.
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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
English architect (1824-1881)
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
English architect (1824-1881)
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
English architect (1824-1881)
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
English architect (1824-1881)
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
English architect (1824-1881)
An absolutely different and distinctive character.
English architect (1824-1881)