Britton, John

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Britton, John (1771–1857). English architectural and topographical writer. His Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (1807–26) and Cathedral Antiquities (1836) were major source-books for the Gothic Revival. He taught R. W. Billings. See Pugin, A. C.

Bibliography

Britton (1807–26);
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)

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