It remains distinctive for its once-controversialIn 1875, a writer in The Guardian dismissed Butterfield's Chapel as "fantastically picked out with zig-zag or checkerboard ornamentation", to which Butterfield responded stoutly in print, citing his East Anglian and Cotswold precedents: Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, noted in a review by J. Mordaunt Crook in The English Historical Review 1974. neo-gothic red-brick buildings designed by William Butterfield. The buildings are also notable for breaking from Oxbridge tradition by arranging rooms along corridors rather than around staircases, in order that the scouts could supervise the comings and goings of visitors (Girton College, Cambridge, similarly breaks this tradition).
It remains distinctive for its once-controversialIn 1875, a writer in The Guardian dismissed Butterfield's Chapel ,as "fantastically picked out with zig-zag or checkerboard ornamentation", to which Butterfield responded stoutly in print, citing his East Anglian and Cotswold precedents: Paul Thompson, William Butterfield 1971 noted in a review by J. Mordaunt Crook in The English Historical Review 1974. neo-gothic red-brick buildings designed by William Butterfield. The buildings are also notable for breaking from Oxbridge tradition by arrangi,ng rooms along corridors rather than around staircases in order that the scouts could supervise the comings and goings of vis,itors (Girton College, Cambridge, similarly breaks this tradition).