Gothic Revival Architecture in Britain, the Empire, and Europe

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'Oh!' cried Mrs. Skewton, with a faded little scream of rapture, 'the Castle is charming!—associations of the Middle Ages—and all that—which is so truly exquisite. . . . Such charming times! . . . So full of faith! So vigorous and forcible! So picturesque! So perfectly removed from commonplace! Oh dear! If they would only leave us a little more of the poetry of existence in these terrible days!' . . .

'Those darling byegone times . . . with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!' — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, ch. 27

Influences and Theoreticians Walpole and Strawberry Hill The Cambridge Camden Society and the Ecclesiological Society Sir Walter Scott's Importance to the Gothic Revival Thomas Carlyle Ruskin and the Gothic Revival Semper, Ruskin, and Viollet-le-Duc — Theorists of the Gothic Revival A Cogent Attack on the Gothic Revival in “The New Law Courts” (1871) William Morris Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc The Advantages of Gothic Domestic Architecture; or Gothic as Essentially Functionalist Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic Resistance to the Gothic Revival Medieval English Gothic Architecture — Backgrounds to the Gothic Revival (sitemap) Major Buildings and Monuments 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 The Gothic Revival 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 The Carmelite Church (Malta) The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Malta) Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, Singapore The Cathedral of St. John, Hong Kong Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Saigon, Vietnam L'Église Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia, Canada Elphinstone College, Mumbai, India Royal Alfred Sailors' Home Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, or CST) Municipal Corporation Building (1888-93) Oriental Buildings (remodelled 1893-96) (Former) Churchgate Terminus, later Western Railways Headquarters (1894-99) Standard Chartered Bank Offices (1898-1902)

The Gothic Revival in Europe The Gothic Revival in Central Europe The Gothic Revival in Poland St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic Parliament House, Budapest, Hungary St. Matthias, Budapest, Hungary Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest, Hungary Livraria Chardron, Porto, Portugal Notre Dame de Fourvière, Lyon, France Église Saint-Ambroise, Paris, France The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Reichsburg Castle, Cochem, Germany — Fanciful Gothic Revival Name of Mary Church, Novi Sad, Serbia 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 Edward Buckton Lamb W. E. Nesfield Ernest Newton J. L. Pearson J. Prichard 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 Painting The Art-Journal, 1850-1880: Antiquarians, the Medieval Revival, and The Reception of Pre-Raphaelitism Decorative Arts and Design The Gothic Revival and the Decorative Arts Opposition and then Triumph

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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