George Gutch (1790-1894) was a British architect and to four successive

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surveyor for much of the

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's southern strip of the parish of

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Background

Gutch was son of John Gutch, rector of St Clement's and registrar of the University of Oxford."Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries." Jackson's Oxford Journal

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Achievements

His work helped to realise much of the 1824 masterplan promoted and drawn by

Samuel Pepys Cockerell Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) was an English architect. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is best known for, Sezinc ...

. Gutch laid out roads, communal garden areas and designed certain of the grand terraces, now

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(statutorily protected) in

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and adjoining streets. This was part of his ''Final Plan for

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'' of 1838, which enlisted other architects for some buildings such as George Ledwell Taylor. These still private-housing dominated neighbourhoods in

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focus on and have been widely, popularly, re-branded

Lancaster Gate Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater district of central London, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens. It consists of two long terraces of houses overlooking the park, with a wide gap between them openi ...

and Connaught Village. He was District Surveyor for more than 50 years for

as a parish-turned-district. Gutch was tasked to finish the designs for St James' Church,

Sussex Gardens Sussex Gardens is located in Paddington in Central London. It is a street that runs runs westwards from the Edgeware Road, for most of the way as a broad Avenue (landscape), avenue until it reaches an area near Lancaster Gate where it becomes a ...

, in what is now termed Lancaster Gate (with or without optional suffixes, Bayswater, Paddington) (c. 1841) as John Goldicutt died. The latter's proposed an equally yellow brick but to be cleanly neo-classical. Gutch changed the style and embellishments to

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. The building was extensively changed by

G.E. Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford, London, Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Gothic Revival architecture, Vi ...

in 1882."St James. Sussex Gardens, W2." in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutch, George Architects from London Tyburnia 1790 births 1894 deaths English centenarians Men centenarians