1. George Pace was trained in London, and served in the army, before being appointed as surveyor to a number of cathedrals.
15 Facts About George Pace
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George Pace was born in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a ship owner's clerk.
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George Pace was educated at Addiscombe New College, and then became articled to James Ransome and Cootes in London.
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George Pace studied in the evenings at Regent Street Polytechnic.
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When in 1949 Pace was appointed as surveyor to the diocese of Sheffield, he resigned his commission and established a private practice in York.
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George Pace created a design for a cathedral in Ibadan, Nigeria, but it was not built.
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George Pace's works were almost completely ecclesiastical, but he did design a library for Durham University, and carried out repairs at Castle Howard.
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George Pace was a writer and lecturer, and was concerned about conservation issues, being a member of the York Civic Trust and the York Georgian Society.
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George Pace died in York in 1975, and his practice was continued by his assistant, Ronald Sims.
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George Pace's ashes are interred in the Retro-choir of Southwark Cathedral.
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In respect of his influences, George Pace's son, Peter, in the biography of his father, states that Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an early influence.
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George Pace quoted a fellow student who said "whilst most of the students enthused about Lloyd Wright or Gropius, George was more concerned with the ideas of William Morris, Lethaby and Burges".
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George Pace was a member of The New Churches Research Group, a group of Catholic and Anglican church architects and craftspeople who promoted liturgical reform of churches though publications such as The Tablet and Architects' Journal.
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New churches designed by George Pace that are entirely Modernist include St Mark, Chadderton, Greater Manchester, the William Temple Memorial Church, and St Saviour, Fairweather Green, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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At All Saints' Church, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, George Pace built a new nave and vestry within the ruins of a church that had been damaged in the Civil War.