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	Gothic Revival
		Gothic Revival borrowed decorative elements from Churches and town halls that were built in Europe between 1100 and 1500.
		Gothic Revival structures were built of stone and brick with lots of wooden trim, or they could be frame with clapboard siding and lots of wooden decorative trim.
		Gothic Revival buildings combined verticality, the use of fretcut wooden trimwork and rambling building designs to create some of the most picturesque buildings constructed in the decades surrounding the Civil War.
	www.huntingtoncounty.org /architecture/gothic.htm (0 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gothic revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gothic and neo-Gothic in Florence: the Gothic campanile and the Gothic Revival façade of the Duomo
		In England, the Church of England was undergoing a revival of Anglo-Catholic ideology in the form of the Oxford Movement and it became desirable to build large numbers of new churches to cater for the growing population.
		The decline of Gothic architecture in England was due to the belated influence of the Italian Renaissance in the early seventeenth century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gothic-revival (6582 words)

	Brief Account of Gothic Architecture and Revival
		The decline of Gothic architecture in England was due to the belated influence of the Italian Renaissance in the early seventeenth century.
		Expression of the Gothic Revival in church architecture was thus largely postponed until the great urban expansion of the nineteenth century.
		Champions of the "Christian" Gothic style condemned this as being "pagan." The survival of historic Westminster Hall whose 1406 hammerbeam ceiling spanned the 221 by 75-foot chamber probably prompted the adoption of Gothic.
	hometown.aol.com /gaaudsley/GothicFrame1Source1.htm (2591 words)

	The Gothic Revival House Nomination (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gothic Revival Cottage is an excellent example of this architectural style, which is somewhat rare in the Midwest, in particular in central Illinois.
		Gothic Revival is characterized by a variety of elements: vertical emphasis; narrow lancet (pointed arch) windows; decorative bargeboard (gingerbread); molded label lintels over windows and doors; battlements parapets; tall clustered chimney stacks, often paired in center of gable roof; steeply pitched gable roof, often cross gabled; and stained glass (Gorden 80).
		Greek Revival elements are primarily seen in the cornice returns on the cross gable at the rear of the house.
	www.city.urbana.il.us /urbana/community_development/planning/historic_preservation/gothic_nomination.htm (2533 words)

	Gothic revival. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although the Gothic revival was practiced throughout Europe, it attained its greatest importance in the United States and England.
		Followers of Ruskin and Pugin soon came into conflict with proponents of the classic revival, and the resulting conflict has often been called a battle of the two styles.
		The Gothic movement foundered because of the impossibility of reproducing medieval buildings when there was no longer a medieval economy or technology.
	www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gothicre.html (499 words)

	Gothic Revival Architecture in America
		The Gothic Revival was characterized by strong associational values of religion and nature.
		It is a revival style based on English and French precedents from the late 12th-15th centuries.
		Gothic Revival is found in both ecclesiastical and residential architecture with a wide range of archaeological accuracy, from Richard Upjohn's urban churches to "Carpenter's Gothic" cottages.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/gothicrev.html (73 words)

	Gothic Revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gothic Revival was popular in Indiana domestic architecture from the 1840s through the 1860s, and in ecclesiastical architecture from the 1840s well into the twentieth century.
		Steep-pitched gable roofs, often with finials at the apex, expressed the Gothic verticality and caused the Gothic Revival to be dubbed the "pointed style" in the nineteenth century.
		Gothic churches, tombstones, and mausolea appeared at various levels of sophistication, and by the twentieth century there was a greater concern for accuracy in the display of Gothic elements.
	www.ci.valparaiso.in.us /hpc/Architecture/Gothic/gothic.htm (438 words)

	Gallant Gothic
		The overall tone of the Gothic Revival was wistful and sad; the brightest and the darkest aspects of the revival were expressed during these years.
		Driven by a revelation that the Catholic church was "unerring" in its decisions and that the Gothic was "the grand and sublime style," this convert became the leading promulgator and codifier of Gothic Revival design.
		The Gothic Revival as practiced and codified by Pugin would serve as one significant building block in the development of the style in the United States during the 1800s.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/gothic.htm (2091 words)

	glossary
		Almost unknown in the early churches, the flanking aisle was reintroduced with the Gothic Revival and is common in Anglican and Catholic churches.
		A characteristic of Gothic Revival is use of multiple gables and turrets or towers to introduce an asymmetrical appearance.
		Gothic Revival is also used to identify a movement in the mid-nineteenth century to embrace the English parish church of the fourteenth century as the most appropriate style for Episcopal churches in this country, and in England.
	njchurchscape.com /glossary.html (0 words)

	REALTOR.com: Fanciful, Mythical Style
		Thus, the Gothic Style, which fed America's fascination with the romance of the medieval past, was born.
		Gothic Revival, the first of the Picturesque styles, was a style that borrowed decorative elements from churches and town halls that were built in Europe between 1100 and 1500.
		Gothic builders were less concerned with formal stylistic dogma than they were with the celebration of craft and utility.
	www.realtor.com /Basics/AllAbout/TypesStyles/Articles/Gothic.asp (389 words)

	The Gothic revival Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		The second Gothic revival is usually seen as a more archaeologically correct interpretation of medieval art and architecture in which designers and architects borrowed, and more faithfully reproduced, motifs that defined the architecture and arts of that earlier age.
		This Gothic revival is the subject of an exhibition on view at Hirschl and Adler Galleries in New York City from April 15 through June 9.
		The Gothic revival enjoyed a heyday for a relatively short time, as it was completely eclipsed by the advent of the Civil War.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_169/ai_n16130452 (674 words)

	Gothic Revival Architecture in England
		The term "Gothic Revival" (sometimes called Victorian Gothic) usually refers to the period of mock-Gothic architecture practised in the second half of the 19th century.
		It is really only after 1840 the the Gothic Revival began to gather steam, and when it did the prime movers were not architects at all, but philosophers and social critics.
		This is the really curious aspect of the Victorian Gothic revival; it intertwined with deep moral and philosophical ideals in a way that may seem hard to comprehend in today's world.
	www.britainexpress.com /architecture/gothic-revival.htm (1084 words)

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		Because of this classification, Gothic architecture was used in the construction of Roman Catholic Cathedrals.
		The Masonic revival spread to the United States, and in 1810, architect William Strickland designed the Philadelphia Masonic Temple in the Gothic architectural style and set a precedent that was spread to other cities (Newcomb, 10).
		During the earlier period, the Gothic architecture of the United States was not near as advanced as the structures being built in England.
	www.afn.org /~afn03098/cppaper.htm (4169 words)

	Pugin and the Gothic Revival
		Gothic is a term used to describe a style of European Architecture which begin in the late twelfth century and dominated building design in Europe until the sixteenth.
		The revival of Gothic style was also the work of John Ruskin, an architectural critic who attacked classical architecture because of its aim for perfection and for its demands upon the men who were required, as slaves to build it.
		A wider appeal for the Gothic revival developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century as the interpretation of Gothic was much debated.
	www.artscrafts.org.uk /roots/pugin.html (1031 words)

	Gothic Revival
		Not to be confused with Neo-Gothic, which is a twentieth century adaptation to large institutional buildings, the Gothic Revival is a direct translation of medieval details and building practices to the Ontario climate.
		This house has far fewer Gothic elements than that above, but it has very steeply pitched gables, gingerbread or vergeboarding, and the board and batten finish that was popular during the era.
		To distinguish it as a Gothic Revival building, there is battlementing on the tall, slim, tower and diaper-latticed lancet windows.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /gothicrevival.html (1472 words)

	Publishers' Bindings Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gothic was the major European style from about the 12th to the 15th century.
		On the other hand, Gothic revivalists argued that their style had its roots in Christianity and European history and was therefore a better style for religious and government buildings, in contrast to the pagan Greek art.
		He argued that Gothic architecture was "the only correct expression of the faith, wants, styles and climate of our country." He designed a number of Gothic churches, though financial limitations usually prevented him from completely elaborating on his ideals.
	bindings.lib.ua.edu /gallery/gothicrevival.html (610 words)

	Gothic Revival
		Gothic architecture was dominant in France and the western half of Europe in the 12th through the middle of the 16th centuries.
		The Gothic Revival had developed from the 18th century, and was boosted in the 19th by the chivalric writings of Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Love Peacock.
		One of the compartments of a groin or ribbed vault, in the Romanesque period usually of plastered rubble, in the Gothic period of neatly coursed stones.
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	Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, Maine
		Bath possesses two major Gothic Revival Churches, of the 1840's which each interpret the medieval style in a distinctive manner.
		The building committee immediately commissioned Arthur Gilman of Boston to design a church in the Gothic Revival manner, which was then beginning to gain wide acceptance as a style for New England Houses of worship.
		The building committee accepted Gilman's ideas for a Gothic Revival church and contracted with the local master builder, Isiah Coombs, to erect the structure.
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	American architecture, Gothic Revival Style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gothic Revival began in England and became the dominant style for country houses and was popular with Queen Victoria.
		But it was his friend Andrew Jackson Downing was the champion of the Gothic Revival style and expanded it with pattern books and tireless public speaking about the virtues of the style.
		The fact that most of these details were originally designed to be executed in stone did not deter American architects and carpenters from doing them in wood, greatly facilitated by the introduction of the steam powered scroll saw which could cut from thin boards the scrolled ornament so often associated with the style.
	www.realviews.com /homes/gothic.html (458 words)

	Gothic Revival Home Plans at eplans.com \| Victorian House Plans
		Gothic Revival house plans are often church-like in appearance.
		Easily identified by its arches and pointed windows, Gothic Revival home plans are built with a steeply pitched roof, grouped chimneys, and oftentimes a verandah.
		Described as church-like in appearance, Gothic Revival homes are commonly found in the Northeast.
	www.eplans.com /victorian-house-plans/gothic-revival.hwx (173 words)

	Architectural Style: Gothic Revival
		Gothic castles and cathedrals spoke of a power and authority closer to home than Ancient Rome.
		The Gothic style had never completely died out, for additions to medieval buildings might be made to blend in with the older work.
		The Gothic Revival was in its heyday between 1855 and 1885.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Style/Gothicrev.htm (541 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Virtual Reality Tour
		Morningside, the house from which the Gothic Revival library was removed, is a strongly massed yet graceful two-and-one-half story red-brick structure.
		The Gothic Revival style was considered particularly appropriate for libraries, and even houses that did not have Gothic exteriors had libraries decorated in the style.
		In addition to detailing taken from Gothic architecture, such as trefoils and clustered columns, Gothic Revival furniture is frequently embellished with oak-leaf motifs, such as those carved into the cornices of the library's two bookcases.
	www.metmuseum.org /works_of_art/vr/gothic/gothic_more.asp (496 words)

	Gravely Gorgeous: Gothic Revival
		During the Gothic Revival in Britain and France, the grotesque represented a world turned upside down, where, for instance, monsters guarded the church.
		The term, Gothic, was first used during the Renaissance by Humanists as a derisive reference to “barbaric” architecture produced after the decline of Classical civilization and before their own efforts to resurrect Classicism.
		Pugin’s design for the heavily gilded interiors is generally recognized as one of the greatest monuments to the English Gothic Revival.
	cidc.library.cornell.edu /adw/gravely/revival.html (235 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gothic revival (Architecture) - Encyclopedia
		Gothic revival, term designating a return to the building styles of the Middle Ages.
		The first works of note in the Gothic style appeared in the 1830s in buildings designed by A. Davis and Richard Upjohn.
		The Gothic movement foundered because of the impossibility of reproducing medieval buildings when there was no longer a medieval economy or technology.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gothicre.html (557 words)

	MDOT - Gothic Revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gothic Revival style was built in Michigan from the 1850s to 1870s.
		It was a decorative style that moved away from the balanced restrained design of the Greek Revival and the Italianate, (both of which were being built during the same time period).
		Gothic Revival houses built in the later years of the popularity have decorative wooden trim which gives the appearance of lace, curls and ribbons draped along the gable edge.
	www.michigan.gov /mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11154_11189-29319--,00.html (200 words)

	Gothic Revival
		Gothic Revival Style Architecture in the Lily of the Valley District (1840-1880)
		The Gothic Revival style was popular between 1840-1860 for houses, but never as popular as Greek or Italianate styles.
		Gothic was mostly promoted as a rural style, not urban, since it didn't fit typical city lots.
	www.ridgwayheritagecouncil.org /gothic.htm (147 words)

	Gothic Revival Architecture in Historic Chatham, Virginia
		The Gothic Revival was chronologically the second Romantic architectural style in Victorian America.
		The Gothic Revival style enjoyed relatively brief popularity as a home design (both nationally and locally), but continues until the present day in church and academic architecture.
		Gothic Revival structures have distinctively vertical lines, typically accentuated by steeply-pitched and high gable roofs and dormers, decorative pendentive bargeboards (or “vergeboards”) in the gables, and similar decorative hanging corbels.
	www.victorianvilla.com /sims-mitchell/local/architecture/gothic/index.htm (950 words)

	Gothic Antique furnishings including Gothic Antique chairs, Gothic tables, Gothic lamps, Gothic silver, Gothic ...
		Gothic Antique furnishings including Gothic Antique chairs, Gothic tables, Gothic lamps, Gothic silver, Gothic chandeliers, Gothic porcelain, Gothic glass, Antique Gothic Cast Iron Parlor Stove, etc. from The Drawing Room of John and Rico located in Historic Newport, Rhode Island 02840.
		Condition: the front two legs are bent back somewhat and need to be tightened; wear to the needlepoint upholstery consistent with use and age; there are two bent metal braces supporting the upper top back of the chair indicating a later 'restoration'.
		This is a rare form for Modern Gothic furniture though the first example of the Davenport Desk was documented in 1865 in England.
	www.drawrm.com /gothic.htm (2204 words)

	Cathedral Church Of St. Paul
		St. Paul's Cathedral stands today as one of the first and finest examples of the Late Gothic Revival, an architectural style popular in the early years of the 20th century.
		"Gothic Revival" architecture, imported from England in the 1830s, gave American architects and designers options for building styles that were not based upon the classical symmetry of Greek and Roman architecture.
		Although Cram's "Neo-Gothic" is now known as the "Late Gothic Revival," St. Paul's Cathedral remains an important landmark in the final stages of America's Gothic styles, and is one of Detroit's architectural treasures.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/detroit/d26.htm (292 words)

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