English, 1831 - 1912
Richard Norman Shaw RA (1831 – 1912), styled as Norman Shaw, was a Scottish architect, working principally from the 1870s to the 1900s, in his his role as an architect and urban designer significant for his residential architecture, for his role in the English Domestic Revival movement, and for his churches, notably, locally, Holy Trinity church (1864–68) Bingley and St Margaret’s, Ilkley, (1879) as well as country houses (notably ‘Cragside’, Northumbria) and for commercial buildings.
Essentially an eclectic architect, subsuming a number of influences, Shaw worked in styles ranging from Gothic Revival to Neo-Baroque based on 17th-century English Palladian architecture, the latter becoming the default ‘accepted style’ for British government buildings.
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