Epitaph
Thomas Garner was well respected by his contemporaries. When the architect John Francis Bentley, stricken by a fatal illness, was asked by Cardinal Vaughan which architect he would choose to carry on his work in the Cathedral at Westminster, he replied: "Garner, for he is a man of genius". His genius derived from the minutely careful finish of his work, based on his unremitting study and love of Mediaeval archeology, Gothic and Renaissance art, particularly its English manifestations. River House, Tite Street, Chelsea Embankment, completed in 1879, showed that he could design in a manner that was relatively little appreciated at the time: its sober early 18th-century character is singular as the design of a reputed Gothicist.
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