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Grimthorpe, v.|ˈgrɪmθɔːp|
[f. the name of Sir Edmund Beckett, first Lord Grimthorpe (1816–1905), whose restoration of St. Albans Cathedral, completed in 1904, aroused fierce criticism and controversy.]
trans. To restore (an ancient building) with lavish expenditure rather than skill and fine taste.
1890Antiquary Jan. 34 To this a keen and well-known Yorkshire ecclesiologist replied: ‘Heaven forbid! the building might be grimthorped!’ 1892Athenæum 23 July 138/2 St. Albans and other great national fabrics that have been ‘Grimthorped’. 1900Ibid. 28 July 129/2 This is indeed grimthorping with a vengeance. 1909Daily Chron. 9 July 6/6 The parish church, which despite of vigorous ‘grimthorping’ still shows a trace of its old Norman architecture. |