Watson Fothergill's Offices, George Street: upper facade
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Watson Fothergill's Offices, George Street: upper facade
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 12 Aug 2009
The offices he built for himself exemplify Fothergill's eclectic Bavarian-Romanesque-Renaissance-chateau style. The polychromatic brick, dark timbering, leaded lights, curly finials and heavy carved bargeboards are features of other Fothergill buildings in the city. Above the first-floor windows are busts of the architects A W N Pugin and G E Street, in homage to two of Fothergill's mentors. There is also a large statue of a medieval architect. "Perhaps this figure," wrote Ken Brand in his Nottingham Civic Society monograph on Fothergill, "with a bundle of plans in his hands and at his feet a model of a Gothic Cathedral, was how Fothergill saw himself." For a view of the whole of this building, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443245 .
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