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1899 – Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Architect: Harrison Townsend

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Harrison Townsend was a founder member of the Arts Workers Guild, and a enthusiast for the work of Richardson in the United States, although his own work was decidedly English Arts & Crafts in style. The gallery has a monumental mass and solidity, with a large Richardson-inspired doorway which was to have been offset by a stone frize. Sadly, it never received the frieze designed by Walter Crane, and illustrated above.