Edward Prior - Cook Martin Godfrey MPhil - Cantab RIBA

Shedding new light on Prior's architecture, life, and scholarship, this comprehensive monograph gives him his deserved place in architectural historyEdward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in his houses, and published what is still the seminal work on medieval gothic art in England in 1900. The result of extensive archival and field research, Edward Prior: Arts and Crafts Architect sheds new light on Prior's architecture, life, and scholarship. Highly regarded by critics such as Ian Nairn, Prior is sometimes considered to have narrowly missed out on a place in the architectural pantheon of his age, alongside contemporaries such as Charles Voysey and William Lethaby.

Extensively illustrated, it showcases Prior's work in color, including many of his