Mountford, Edward William
Mountford, Edward William (1855–1908). English architect who designed several Gothic Revival churches, but is best known for his public buildings, including the Free Renaissance-style Sheffield Town Hall (1890–7—with elements culled from Spain, France, England, and The Netherlands), and the Gibbs Revival-style Lancaster Town Hall (1907—with Thomas Geoffrey Lucas (1872–1947)). He designed the Northampton Institute, Finsbury, London (1893–6), again in a Free Renaissance style. The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London (1900–7), is in a grandly Edwardian Baroque style, with a cupola derived from the work of Wren.
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D&M (1985);
A. S. Gray (1985)
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