Gothic Churches
Burton sometimes worked in a Gothic style, using it for the rebuilding of the church of St Mary at Goring-by-Sea and at Holy Trinity, Eastbourne, and St Augustine, Flimwell (1839). Ian Nairm described Burton's Gothic churches as "disappointingly limp".
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