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In 1876 Sedding met Ruskin under whose influence he developed a freer Gothic style, introducing natural ornament into his designs. Sedding encouraged his students to study old buildings at first hand, focusing on the practicalities of craft techniques. He placed an emphasis on texture and ornament;
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the naturalistic treatment of flowers, leaves and animals, always drawn from life; and the close involvement of the architect in the simple processes of building and in the supervision of a team of craftsmen employed direct. He was elected a member of the
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Sedding died on 7 April 1891, at Winsford in Somerset. There is a memorial on the north wall of the Lady Chapel of Holy Trinity Sloane Street. He was buried in the churchyard of St John's Church, West Wickham. His wife, Rose, died a few weeks after him.
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Sedding moved first to Bristol, and then to London, though he always retained an affection for Cornwall, the West Country and country life. One of his first churches was the Anglo-Catholic St Martin's at
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He is noted for his many designs for church furnishings and plate, and contributed rich decorative features to numerous churches, such as screens at
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described as "the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement", although much of the decoration Sedding intended was not carried out.
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Sedding's buildings include the London churches of St Augustine of Canterbury, Highgate, London N6 (1884, completed by others),
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Pevsner 1970, p.80. Pevsner describes the building as "not up to the standard of the architect of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street
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and moved from Bristol to set up in practice in London the following year, taking offices on the upper floors of 447
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His 1889 lecture, "The Architectural Treatment of Gardens", was influential in the revival espoused by
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in Cheshire completed in 1872. The interior was designed by William Morris with contributions from
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said that "he formed the first bridge between the architects' camp and that of handicraft proper".
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in Berkshire. He was the son of a village schoolmaster, who spent much of his youth in
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in 1884, the year of its foundation, and was elected as its second master in 1886.
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Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, Chelsea, which Sedding designed in the late 1880s
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Sedding left Street in 1863 and by about 1865 he had joined his brother
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before him, Sedding became a pupil of the Gothic Revival architect,
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Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Highate: an illustrated history
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The Knole, now Freemasons' Hall, Knole Road, Boscombe
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John Dando Sedding

Holy Trinity Church
Sloane Street
Arts and Crafts movement
Ernest Gimson
Ernest Barnsley
Reginald Blomfield
bowling greens
topiary
cottage garden
Arts and Crafts gardens
Hermann Muthesius

Eton
Derbyshire
John Ruskin
Stones of Venice
William Morris
Philip Webb
Norman Shaw
George Edmund Street
Edmund Sedding
Gilbert Scott
Edmund Sedding
Penzance
tuberculosis
Marple
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ford Madox Brown

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