1860 – Church of St. Baithen, St. Johnstown, Co. Donegal
Architect: E.W. Godwin
A small severe-looking church, the interior of which has sadly been ruined by modernisation. Exterior finished in rubble stone with sandstone trimmings.
E.W. Godwin (1833-1886)
A progressive British architect-designer, who began working in the strongly polychromatic “Ruskinian Gothic” style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the “Anglo-Japanese taste” of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler’s circle in the 1870s. Godwin’s influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
His best known early works include The Guild Hall, Northampton, which was his first notable public commission and Town Hall, Congleton as well as restorations and neo-Gothic additions to Dromore Castle and Castle Ashby. Apprenticed to an engineer in Bristol, where his architectural training was largely self-taught, Godwin moved to London about 1862, and made the acquaintance of the reform Gothic designer William Burges.
1862 – Unbuilt Design for St. Finn Barre’s Cathedral, Cork
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Competition design from the 1862 competition published in The Building News, October 11th 1872. In February 1863,
1864 – Northampton Guildhall, Northamptonshire
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Built to the design of Edward William Godwin, begun when he was only 28, between 1861 and 1864.
1871 – Design for Winchester Town Hall, Hampshire
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Unsuccessful design published after a competition in The Building News, August 25th 1871.
1871 – Proposed East End, Little Gaddesden Church, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Proposed decorative scheme for the east end of Little Gaddesden Church. Published in The Building News,
1872 – Design for St. Annes Heath Asylum, Surrey
Architect: E.W. Godwin
From The Building News, August 23 1872: “”Mens.” — The elevations of this design are treated in a clever and artistic manner The centre block,
1874 – Beauvale House, Nottinghamshire
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Beauvale House is an important Grade II* Listed period house designed by the famous architect E.W.
1874 – Dromore Castle, Co. Limerick
Architect: Godwin & Crisp
Dromore Castle is a very distinctive building sitting high on a hill overlooking two lakes in Co.
1874 – Parson’s House, Moorgreen, Nottingham
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Published in The Building News, March 6 1874.
1876 – Villas for Corner Sites, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London
Architect: E.W. Godwin
Elevations, section plans & sketch perspective for villa for corner sites. Published in The Building News,
