ancient buildings. Part of Beckett's additions included statues of the four evangelists around the western door; the statue of St Matthew has Beckett's face. He later turned his attentions to St Peter's and then to St Michael's churches, both in the same city. He lived at Batchwood Hall from where he oversaw the restoration work on the cathedral. He died on 29 April 1905 after a fall, and is buried in the grounds of St Albans Cathedral. His obituary in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society noted his mastery of ecclesiastical law, his publications (ranging from Astronomy without Mathematics to Clocks, Watches, and Bells (1903) to Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical) and noted "there was not a better locksmith in England." Quotation "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled." Religious publications Six Letters on Dr. Todd's Discourses on the Prophecies Relating to Antichrist in the Apocalypse (1848) On the Origin of the Laws of Nature (1880) Should the Revised New Testament be Authorised? (1882) The Life of John Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield With Some of His Writings (1868) A Review of Hume and Huxley on Miracles (1883) Other works Astronomy Without Mathematics (1871) Arms References External links 1816 births 1905 deaths People from Newark and Sherwood (district) 19th-century English architects Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College People from St Albans Burials at St Albans Cathedral Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deaths from falls Chancellors of the Diocese of York Architects from Nottinghamshire Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria English King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel 19th-century King's Counsel Members of Lincoln's Inn Edmund, 1st Baron Grimthorpe English barristers