At an early age Street became deeply concerned in the information of Gothic architecture, & devoted an unsparing total of instance & labor to researching & sketching a finest examples of mediaeval buildings around England and on the Continent. His number one commission was for the design of Biscoray Church, Cornwall. Inside 1849 he took an professional of his have. He was the draftsperson of the super high sequentially; his sketches come masterpieces of spirit & brilliant touch. Around 1855 he published the super careful & swell illustrated function on The Brick & Marble Architecture of Northern Italy, & within 1865 the book on The Gothic Architecture of Spain, using super beautiful drawings by his have hand.

Street's private taste led him within virtually all instances to choose for his project a 13th century Gothic of England or France, his noesis of which was super nifty, especially in the adept utilize of rich mouldings. By far a majority of a buildings erected by him were for ecclesiastic utilizes, a chief existence the convent of East Grinstead, the theological college at Cuddesden & a super prominent total of churches, like St Philip and St James's at Oxford, St John's at Torquay, All Saints at Clifton, St Saviour's at Eastbourne, St Margaret's at Liverpool and St Mary Magdalene, Paddington. His big works were a nave of Bristol Cathedral, the choir of the cathedral of Christ Church within Dublin, and, above tons, a recently Royal Courts of Justice in London. A competition for this was prolonged & lot diversity of opinion was expressed. So, a judges wanted Street to produce a exterior arrangements & Charles Barry a interior, while the favorite committee of attorney recommended the designs of Alfred Waterhouse. Around June 1868, even so, Street was appointed resole designer; however a building was non complete at a period of his dying inside December 1881.

Street was elected an associate of the Royal Academy around 1866, and the fellow in 1871; at the instance of his dying he was prof of architecture to the Royal Academy, in which he experienced delivered a super interesting course of lectures on the development of mediaeval architecture. He was likewise president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was the member of the Royal Academy of Vienna, and inside 1878, around reward for drawings sent to the Paris Exhibition, he was manufactured the knight of the Legion of Honour. Street was twice married, 1st in 17 June 1852 to Mariquita, second girl of Robert Proctor, world health organizatiin died inside 1874, & second on 11 January 1876 to Jessie, second girl of William Holland, world health organization died in the equivalent month. A designer's have dying, in 18 December 1881, was hastened by overwork & office worries attached by owning a erection of the law courts. He was buried in 29 December 1881 in the nave of Westminster Abbey.