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Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built between 1899 and 1908. Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
Starting from the early classicism inherited from Regency architecture, the Italianate style gained influence in the 1840s and 1850s, and the Gothic Revival style became prevalent by the 1880s. Later in the Victorian era , the Queen Anne style and the Arts and Crafts movement increased in influence, resulting in the transition to styles ...
High Victorian Gothic was an eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century. [1] It is seen by architectural historians as either a sub-style of the broader Gothic Revival style, or a separate style in its own right.
The Tower House in 1878. In 1863, William Burges gained his first major architectural commission, Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, at the age of 35. [8] In the following twelve years, his architecture, metalwork, jewellery, furniture and stained glass led his biographer, J. Mordaunt Crook to suggest that Burges rivaled Pugin as "the greatest art-architect of the Gothic Revival". [9]
By Vanessa Brunner For most people, the term "Victorian architecture" defines a diverse but singular style. The reality is that this term encompasses several architectural house styles, all of ...
During the early 19th century, the romantic medieval Gothic Revival style was developed as a reaction to the symmetry of Palladianism, and such buildings as Fonthill Abbey were built. [ 1 ] By the middle of the 19th century, as a result of new technology , construction was able to incorporate metal materials as building components.
Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim . [ 1 ] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly ...
The Henry Sherry House is a historic house located in Neenah, Wisconsin. [2] Home with 5-story tower and porte cochere, designed by Waters in High Victorian Gothic style with some Queen Anne decoration and built in 1883. Sherry was a lumberman with interests in northeastern and central Wisconsin.