William Butterfield, All Saints, Margaret Street

All Saints Church, 7 Margaret Street, London Architect: William Butterfield Primary patrons: Alexander Beresford Hope and Henry Tritton Designed 1849 Cornerstone laid by Edward Bouverie Pusey, 1850 Consecrated 1859 Speakers: Dr. Ayla Lepine and Dr. Steven Zucker William Butterfield had little more than 100 square feet of real estate, but designed perhaps the greatest example of High Victorian Gothic architecture. The spire soars 227 feet above London and its interior is a kaleidoscope of color and pattern that expresses the vision of the Oxford Movement and the Ecclesiological Society. In 1841, the Society announced its intentions for their model church: It must be in a Gothic Style. It must be built of solid materials. Its ornament should decorate its construction. Its artist should be ’a single pious and laborious artist alone, pondering deeply over his duty to do his best for the service of God’s Holy Religion’. Abo