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Prior, Edward S[chröder]

Date born:  1852

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Date died:  1932

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Medievalist art and architectural historian. 

Nikolaus Pevsner characterized him as, "the best English interpreter of the Gothic style."

Home Country:  United Kingdom

Sources:  Pevsner, Nikolaus. Matthew Digby Wyatt: the First Cambridge Slade professor of Fine Art: an Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950, p. 23; Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: Architectural Press, 1980, pp. 105-108.

Bibliography:  A History of Gothic Art in England. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1900; An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England.  Cambridge, University Press, 1912; The Cathedral Builders in England. London: Seeley and Co/New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905; Eight Chapters on English Medieval Art: a Study in English Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.