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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Port Sunlight / Architecture</font></p>
<p><small><font face="Arial">The <a CLASS="item" href="publicbuildings/index.htm" target="_top">public buildings</a> and <a CLASS="item" href="housing/index.htm" target="_top">housing</a> are the work of more than 30 architects
employed by William Lever. In less than one square mile, under his overall direction they
managed to create a garden village with a sense of space and beauty hitherto only dreamed
of.</font></small></p>
<p><small><font face="Arial">The vernacular idiom as interpreted by
Nesfield and Shaw (they called it '<a CLASS="item" href="housing/Lower.htm" target="_top">Old English</a>') was employed throughout together with Victorian <a CLASS="item" href="housing/Cross.htm" target="_top">interpretations of historical</a>
styles. Building materials used ranged from the <a CLASS="item" href="housing/index2.htm" target="_top">Ruabon red brick</a> to the <a CLASS="item" href="publicbuildings/index2.htm" target="_top">softer materials</a> typical of the
Arts & Crafts movement in it's Edwardian phase. <a CLASS="item" href="housing/Cross.htm" target="_top">Gothic windows</a>, <a CLASS="item" href="housing/Features.htm" target="_top">pargetting </a>(ornamental plasterwork), <a CLASS="item" href="housing/Bridge.htm" target="_top">half-timbering</a> and
leaded glazing are commonplace in architecture that integrates yet surprises</font></small></p>
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