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| Picture No | 10582892 |
| Date | 1955 |
| Description | Portrait of Sir Basil Urwin Spence. |
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Sir Basil Urwin Spence (13 August 1907 û 19 November 1976)~~~~Sir Basil Urwin Spence was a Scottish architect, most notable for his work building a new Coventry Cathedral, after the old one had been gutted in World War 2. It was for this work that he was knighted in 1960.~~~~He would go on to design the 'Beehive' Executive Wing of Parliament, as well as many other buildings in modernist/ brutalist style.
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| Source | Photograph by Howard Coster in The Tatler, 6 April 1955 |
| Credit | (c) Illustrated London News/Mary Evans |
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