Biography of William Butterfield

A couple of weeks ago there was the publication of the first-ever biography of the architect of our Chapel, William Butterfield (1814-1900), and has just been published in a splendid production by Lund Humphries of London. Its author, Dr Nicholas Olsberg, visited the Chapel some years ago, and writes in the book that it is

marvellously sited in a manner as firmly evocative of a new sobriety of ornament and warming space: ancient and modern, structure within and structure without.

The book’s photographer, James Morris, also came to the College in 2019. The featured photograph is looking East; all the furniture currently in the chancel was removed for this to get as close as possible to the look in 1880. See more here; several feature in the book, and read a review here.