The Gothic Revival in British Architecture

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Influences and Theoreticians

• Sir Walter Scott's Importance to the Gothic Revival
• Ruskin and the Gothic Revival
• The Advantages of Gothic Domestic Architecture; or Gothic as Essentially Functionalist
• Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic Resistance to the Gothic Revival
• The Gothic Revival and the Decorative Arts
• The Art-Journal, 1850-1880: Antiquarians, the Medieval Revival, and The Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism
• Medieval English Gothic Architecture — Backgrounds to the Gothic Revival (sitemap)

Major Buldings and Monuments in Gothic Revival Styles

• George Gilbert Scott's Albert Memorial
• George Gilbert Scott's St. Pancras Station
• Augustus Welby Pugin's Gothic Revivalism
• G. E. Street's lawcourts and St. Paul's, Rome
• Techno-Gothick: Woodward and Deane's Oxford Natural History Museum
• William Butterfield's Rogue Gothic
• Alfted Waterhouse's Natural History Museum

Gothic Revival Buildings and Monuments in the Colonies

• Mutiny Memorial, Delhi, India
• Christ Church, Simla, India
• St. Mary's Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Australia
• St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore
• Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore
• Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, Singapore
• The Cathedral of St. John, Hong Kong

Gothic Revival Buildings and Monuments in Europe

• Livraria Chardron, 144 Rua das Carmelitas, Porto, Portugal

Architects and Architect-Designers

• Sir Arthur Blomfield
• Edward Blore
• William Butterfield
• William Burges
• John Corry
• William Henry Crossland
• Benjamin Ferrey
• G. Goldie
• Philip Charles Hardwick
• Sir Horace Jones
• W. E. Nesfield
• Ernest Newton
• J. L. Pearson
• J. Pritchard
• Augustus Welby Pugin
• Sir George Gilbert Scott
• John Dando Sedding
• George Edmund Street
• Alfred Waterhouse
• Philip Speakman Webb
• W. White
• Woodward and Deane (Techno-Gothick Oxford Museum)
• T. H. Wyatt

References

Clark, Kenneth. The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste. Orig. pub. 1928. London: Constable, 1950.

Eastlake, Charles L. A History of the Gothic Revival. London: Longmans, Green; N.Y. Scribner, Welford, 1872. [Copy in Brown University's Rockefeller Library]

Goodhart-Rendel, H. S. "English Gothic of the Nineteenth Century." Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 31 (1924):321-45.

Gwynn, Denis R. Lord Shrewsbury, Pugin, and the Catholic Revival. London: Hollins and Carter, 1946.

Hersey, George L. High Victorian Gothic" A Study in Associationism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1972.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Penguin, 1963.

Pugin, A. Welby. The Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England. "Republished from the Dublin Review." London: Charles Dolman, 1843.

Ruskin, John. Works. Library Edition. Ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 39 vols. London: George Allen, 1903-12.

Stanton, Phoebe B. The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture: An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856. Johns Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth-Century Architecture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

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