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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Stokes, Leonard |
 | | He established himself as one of the most innovative church architects of the day with St Clare (188090), Sefton Park, Liverpool, where his use of internal buttresses, wall passages and a free Decorated Gothic style all contrasted sharply with the conservatism of much late 19th-century Catholic church architecture. |
 | | St Clare was followed by a number of smaller brick churches, typical of which are Our Lady Help of Christians (188990), Folkestone, Kent, and St Augustine (18934; now Our Lady and St John), Sudbury, Suffolk. |
 | | His Church of the Holy Ghost (18967; altered), Nightingale Square, Balham, London, was his most unusual design, asymmetrical in plan, with nave piers and capitals stripped of traditional mouldings. |
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