Gothic Revival architecture
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Gothic Revivalism
a universal style current since its inception in Britain in the late 18th century, ...
Gothic Revival (1840-1880)
(Churches through 1940s)
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Gothic Revival: Victorian Gothic Styles
Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York ...
Gothic Revival Churches: Gothic Revival architecture came to America from England about 1830. Its most famous practitioner, English born Richard Upjohn, a cabinet maker and draftsman, arrived in this country as a young man in 1829.
Gothic Revival Churches
The Gothic Revival can be divided into two groups, anything done before 1841 was a romantic Gothic.
GOTHIC REVIVAL (c.1825-c.1870)
The picturesque and pointed forms of the Gothic Revival style were derived from medieval Gothic architecture. This style was first used in Vermont in the mid 1820s for churches.
The Gothic revival style was influenced from medieval Gothic architecture. Early in the period, Gothic Revival houses were constructed of stone and brick imitating the castles and magnificent cathedrals of Europe.
Gothic Revival
The Gothic Revival style developed in England in the 18 th century, and was boosted in the 19 th century by the chivalric writings of Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Love Peacock.
Gothic Revival
The influence of English romanticism and the mass production of elaborate wooden millwork after the Industrial Revolution fueled the construction of Gothic Revival homes in the mid-1800s.
Gothic Revival
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By the 1830s this romantic style, which developed in England, became popular in the U.S.
Gothic Revival
This style is the opening act for the Victorian Age. It is a reflection of the Picturesque movement (an aesthetic point of view celebrating the variety, texture, and irregularity inherent in nature) that began in Europe.
GOTHIC REVIVAL c. 1850 to 1870
emphasis on vertical line
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Gothic Revival
Rediscovery by the Victorians of mediaeval Gothic style.
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Gothic Revival
An artistic movement dating from the eighteenth century onwards. There were many phases of the Gothic Revival, with different periods and sources of medieval architecture fashionable at various times.
Gothic revival
- Gothic architecture never died, but it was only from the early 1800s that it began to re-emerge in a serious fashion.
It re-awoke in England with the Gothic revival of the i 9th century; and the Gothic revival `determined the direction modern glass should take. Early Victorian doings are interesting only as marking the steps of recovery (cf. the work of T.
Sometimes referred to as Carpenter Gothic Revival, cottages will have whimsical medieval details such as balconies, lacey gingerbread bargeboards and ornamental chimneys.
Commissioners’ GothicThe kind of Gothic Revival style used for many of the Commissioners’ churches after 1818.
Pugin, champion of the Gothic Revival. Pugin took responsibility for the details of this vast monument (begun 1836). In a short and contentious career, he made a moral issue out of a return to the Gothic style.
Gothic Revival Colonial Floor Plans
Greek Revival Floor Plans
Italianate Floor Plans
Log Cabin Floor Plans
Mediterranean Floor Plans
Mission Floor Plans
Modern Floor Plans
Neoclassical Floor Plans
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lancet - a narrow pointed arched opening seen in Gothic Revival
lattice - openwork produced by interlacing of wood laths or other thin strips, used as screening, especially under a porch ...
POINTED ARCH An arch with a strong center point, usually seen in Gothic Revival style buildings.
PORCH A roofed space outside the mains support walls of a building.
PORTICO A small entrance porch.
crocket An upwardly projecting repeated decorative element, often along spires and gables in Gothic Revival architecture.
cupola A feature at the top of a roof, usually dome-shaped and opened by windows or columns.
Zigzag pattern of Anglo-Saxon derivation often used on medieval, Gothic revival, and Art Deco pieces.
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TRACERY: decorative intersecting glazing bars in the upper portion of a window; most common in Gothic Revival styles. (IMAGE) ...
The raised portions of a battlement are called merlons, and the openings are called embrasures. Masonry buildings in the Gothic Revival style may have architectural decoration which resembles battlements.
bargeboard - a board, often ornately curved, attached to the projecting edges of a gabled roof; sometimes referred to as vergeboard. This feature was used throughout the Middle Ages as well as in the Gothic Revival of the 19th century.
In America, however, it had become more original and became indigenous. By the late 1860's, Italianate architecture had completely overshadowed it's competitor Gothic Revival, which was once equally as popular.
neo-Gothic (also called Gothic Revival). Modern imitation of the Gothic style of architecture, which originated in 18th-century England and became popular throughout Europe and North America.
 See also: Gothic, Architecture, House, Arches, Church
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