Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Gothic Revival
Main article: Gothic revival architecture In England, some discrete Gothic details appeared on new construction at Oxford and Cambridge i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - Gothic Revival Buildings
Image:Center Regents Park300.JPG Alban Towers, Washington, D.C. Albert Memorial, London All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London Cathe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - Gothic Revival Buildings
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Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - History
Gothic Revival architecture - Survival and revival. Gothic architecture did not die out completely in the 15th century but lingered on,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Revival Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Revival Architecture - History
Gothic Revival architecture - Survival and revival. Gothic architecture did not die out completely in the 15th century but lingered on,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia - Country House
In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Architecture: Encyclopedia - Victorian Architecture
The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. As with the latt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architectural Style: Encyclopedia - Architectural Style
Architectural style constitutes a mode of classifying architecture largely by morphological characteristics in terms of form, techniques,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugène Viollet-le-duc: Encyclopedia - Eugène Viollet-le-duc
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (January 27, 1814 – September 17, 1879) was a French architect and theorist, famous for his restoration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States
Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nave: Encyclopedia - Nave
Links to full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are also found at the entry Cathedral diagram. In Romanesque and Gothic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus: Encyclopedia - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) (better referred to by its acronym CST) - is a historic railway station on Mumb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Sequence Of Gothic Styles: France
The designations of styles in French Gothic architecture are as follows: Early Gothic High Gothic Rayonnant Late Gothic or Flamboyant st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Brick Gothic
Main article: Brick Gothic. In Northern Germany, Scandinavia and northern Poland, in areas where native stone was unavailable, simplified...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Gothic In The 20th Century
Neo-Gothic continued to be considered appropriate for churches and college buildings well into the 20th century. Charles Donagh Maginnis'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - List Of Notable Gothic Structures
France Chartres Cathedral Bourges Cathedral Bourges Cathedral Amiens Cathedral Notre-Dame de Laon Our Lady's Cathedral in Paris (th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Architectural Styles: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Architectural Styles - Residential Styles
Australian Residential Architectural Styles can generally be categorised as follows. There are overlaps between periods: Old Colonial Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Characteristics
The style emphasizes verticality and features almost skeletal stone structures with great expanses of glass, sharply pointed spires, clus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Architecture - Sequence Of Gothic Styles: England
The designations of styles in English architecture still follows conventions of labels given them by antiquaries in the 18th century: Ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Origins Of The Gothic Novel
The term "gothic" was originally a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture) and art (Gothic art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Origins Of The Gothic Novel
The term "gothic" was originally a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture) and art (Gothic art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Architectural History Of The Country House
The headings in this section are merely intended to provide a rough indication of the main periods in the architectural history of the co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamin Mountfort: Encyclopedia Ii - Benjamin Mountfort - Mountfort's Gothic Architecture
The Gothic revival style of architecture began to gain in popularity from the late 18th century as a romantic backlash against the more c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Architectural Styles: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Architectural Styles - Non-residential Styles
Australian architectural style classification taken from Apperley, Irving and Reynolds (1989): Australian architectural styles - Old Col...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fan District: Encyclopedia Ii - Fan District - Architecture
The Fan is significant for having one of the longest intact stretches of Victorian architecture in the United States. Primary architect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Who Built The Houses And Why
The architectural historian Mark Girouard argues in Life in the English Country House, that country houses were essentially "power houses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Who Built The Houses, And Why
The architectural historian Mark Girouard argues in Life in the English Country House, that country houses were essentially "power houses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tudorbethan Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Tudorbethan Architecture - Evolution
The Tudorbethan style was a reaction to the ornate Victorian Gothic revival of the second half of the 19th century. Rejecting mass produc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Defining The Country House
Subject to qualifications which are discussed below, a country house will once have been the centrepiece of an agricultural estate large ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Life In The Country House
Country house - Social structures. The country house was the centre of its own world, providing employment to literally hundreds of peo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Decline Of The Country House
The decline of the English country house began during the Agricultural Depression of the 1870s and was dramatically accelerated by World ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Country House In Recent Years
At some point in recent decades—perhaps after the exhibition, The Destruction of the Country House, at the Victoria and Albert Museum i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Outside England
Welsh country houses were perhaps only different from their English counterparts in minor ways, but Scottish, Irish, and Continental Euro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Country House In Recent Years
At some point in recent decades—perhaps after the exhibition, The Destruction of the Country House, at the Victoria and Albert Museum i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quatrefoil: Encyclopedia Ii - Quatrefoil - In Architecture/symbolism
In architecture and traditional Christian symbolism, a quatrefoil is a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis Petre: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis Petre - Architect
From 1875 Petre seems to have devoted his life to architecture, in particular ecclesiastical architecture. No doubt influenced by the fas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Washington Historic State Park: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Washington Historic State Park - Buildings
The historic buildings provide excellent examples of the architectural styles popular in the American south during the 1824 to 1889 perio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alban Towers: Encyclopedia Ii - Alban Towers - Overview
The land Alban Towers is situated on was purchased by its developer from the Washington National Cathedral in the early 1920s. It opened ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manchester Town Hall: Encyclopedia Ii - Manchester Town Hall - Design And Construction Of The New Building
The site chosen for a new town hall was an oddly shaped triangle and, of the 136 entries in open competition for the design, Waterhouse's...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Fashion: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Fashion - Historical Overview
Several general style trends of the Victorian era transcend any one facet of fashion, but rather had broad influence across clothing styl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Primitivism: Encyclopedia Ii - Primitivism - The Origins Of Primitivism In Western Art
Western art has repeatedly searched for basic motifs to base art works upon, or to contrast with the normative world of day to day behavi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bryn Mawr College: Encyclopedia Ii - Bryn Mawr College - Facilities
Bryn Mawr's library holdings are housed in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library (opened 1970), the Rhys Carpenter Library (opened 1997), and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - English Usage
The word "goth" can be used as a noun. e.g. "My best friend is a goth." Plurally, an S is added. e.g. "At the club there were many goths....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - The First Gothic Novels
The term "gothic" came to be applied to the literary genre precisely because the genre dealt with such emotional extremes and dark themes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strawberry Hill London: Encyclopedia Ii - Strawberry Hill London - Walpole's Villa
It features "Strawberry Hill", the 18th century fancifully "Gothick" villa of Horace Walpole, a folly which he had built in stages to his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugène Viollet-le-duc: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugène Viollet-le-duc - Legacy
Some of his restorations, such as that of the castle of Pierrefonds, were highly controversial because they did not aim so much at accura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - 'architectural Genius'
In knowledge of medieval architecture and in his insight into its spirit and form, he stood above all his contemporaries. As a draughtsma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - The First Gothic Novels
The term "gothic" came to be applied to the literary genre precisely because the genre dealt with such emotional extremes and dark themes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Religious Elements
Religious imagery has frequently played an important part in gothic fashion and also in song lyrics. However, many goths aspire to "free ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Popular Intolerance
Like many other subcultures, or a religious or ethnic minority, goths have faced differing levels of popular intolerance because of their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugène Viollet-le-duc: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugène Viollet-le-duc - Publications
Throughout his career Viollet-le-Duc made notes and drawings, not only for the buildings he was working on, but also on Romanesque, Gothi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Post-victorian Legacy
By the 1880s, it was time for a revival of the gothic novel as a semi-respectable literary form. This was the period of the gothic works ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Music
The bands which began the gothic rock and death rock scene were limited in number, and included bands such as Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capitol Hill Salt Lake City Utah: Encyclopedia Ii - Capitol Hill Salt Lake City Utah - Marmalade District
The western slope of Capitol Hill is called the "Marmalade District" after marmalade fruit jam because of the streets named after fruit t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Origins And Influences
Goth - Original subculture. By the late 1970s, there were a small number of post punk bands in Britain labeled "gothic." However, it wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - 'architectural Genius'
In knowledge of medieval architecture and in his insight into its spirit and form, he stood above all his contemporaries. As a draughtsma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Goth After Post-punk
After the demise of post punk, goth continued to evolve, both musically and visually. This caused variations in style ("types" of goth). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siding: Encyclopedia Ii - Siding - Wood Siding
Siding is often made out of wood. Overlapping horizontal siding is called clapboard. Nowadays, however, clapboard is usually made of fibe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugène Viollet-le-duc: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugène Viollet-le-duc - As An Architectural Restorer
In the early 1830s, the beginnings of a movement for the restoration of medieval buildings appeared in France. Viollet-le-Duc, returning ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - Writings
The influence he wielded must be ascribed as much to his vigorous writings and exquisite designs as to any particular edifice which he er...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - Writings
The influence he wielded must be ascribed as much to his vigorous writings and exquisite designs as to any particular edifice which he er...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United Kingdom - Victorian Architecture
In the early 19th century the romantic medieval gothic style appeared as a backlash to the symmetry of Palladianism, and such buildings a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Later Developments
In Britain, the gothic novel as a genre largely played itself out by 1840. This was helped by the over-saturation of the genre by cheap "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - France And Germany
At about the same time, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir ("black novel") in France an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Cultural Significance And Philosophy
The goth subculture is best seen as a late offshoot of romanticism and neoromanticism, with its fascination with the importance of the in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Federal Architecture
Thomas Jefferson was a skilled amateur architect who designed the original buildings at the University of Virginia and his estate Montice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Federal Architecture
Thomas Jefferson was a skilled amateur architect who designed the original buildings at the University of Virginia and his estate Montice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United Kingdom - Medieval Architecture
After the Norman invasion of 1066, more consistent forms of design began to regularly appear. William I and his law lords built numerous ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Washington Historic State Park: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Washington Historic State Park - Events
The park provides a variety of events for local residents and visitors including demonstrations and workshops on blacksmithing, weaving, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle Ages In History: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle Ages In History - Romantics
Main article: Romanticism The "uncouth times that one calls the Middle Ages" (Voltaire) was followed by a revolutionary change in perspec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - France And Germany
At about the same time, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir ("black novel") in France an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Skyscrapers
The most notable United States architectural innovation has been the skyscraper. Several technical advances made this possible. In 1853 E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Indigenous
The oldest structures on territory that is now the United States are Pueblo villages of New Mexico. The Tiwa speaking people have inhabit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernisme: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernisme - Modernisme In Architecture
In the art aspect, -although when applied to the Catalan modernisme the word has a wider sense—, it usually refers to the art currents ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Later Developments
In Britain, the gothic novel as a genre largely played itself out by 1840. This was helped by the over-saturation of the genre by cheap "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamin Mountfort: Encyclopedia Ii - Benjamin Mountfort - Return To Architecture
In 1857 he returned to architecture and entered into a business partnership with his sister Susannah's new husband, Isaac Luck. Christchu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hillsborough County Down: Encyclopedia Ii - Hillsborough County Down - Places Of Interest
Hillsborough Castle is the official residence of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (and other royal family members) when visiting the pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parliament Hill: Encyclopedia Ii - Parliament Hill - Parliament Buildings
The entire parliamentary precinct measures 112,360 square metres. It is bounded on the north by the Ottawa River, on the east by the Ride...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mudéjar: Encyclopedia Ii - Mudéjar - Mudéjar Style
In erecting Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance buildings, elements of Islamic art were used, achieving sometimes striking results. Its i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamin Mountfort: Encyclopedia Ii - Benjamin Mountfort - Evaluation Of Mountfort's Work
Evaluating Mountfort's works today, one has to avoid judging them against a background of similar designs in Europe. In the 1860s, New Ze...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Hosking: Encyclopedia Ii - William Hosking - Designs For The First 'new World' Garden Cemetery In Europe
In 1839 William Hosking was chosen by the newly formed Abney Park Cemetery Company to design the first landscaped park cemetery to serve ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Kent: Encyclopedia Ii - William Kent - Architectural Works
He is better remembered as the central architect of the revived Palladian style in England. Burlington gave him the task of editing The D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Lawson Architect: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Lawson Architect - Appraisal And Legacy
Robert Lawson was chiefly an architect of his time, designing in the styles then popular. The British emigrants to the colonies wanted ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United Kingdom - Stuart Architecture
The Civil War 1642—49 proved to be the last time in British history that houses had to survive a siege. Corfe Castle was destroyed foll...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United Kingdom - Twentieth Century Architecture
At the beginning of the 20th century a new form of design arts and crafts became popular, the architectural form of this style, which had...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Colonial
The earliest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida founded in 1565. The Castillo de Sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Thematic Concerns
As stated by many critics and scholars, the Cathedral of Notre Dame appears to be the main setting, which is almost elevated to the statu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Thematic Concerns
As stated by many critics and scholars, the Cathedral of Notre Dame appears to be the main setting, which is almost elevated to the statu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capital Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Capital Architecture - Byzantine And Gothic Capitals
Byzantine capitals are of endless variety; the Roman composite capital would seem to have been the favourite type they followed at first:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Green Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Man - Later Variations On The Green Man Theme
From the Renaissance onwards, elaborate variations on the Green Man theme, often with animal heads rather than human faces, appear in man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capitol Hill Salt Lake City Utah: Encyclopedia Ii - Capitol Hill Salt Lake City Utah - History
Capitol Hill was originally called Arsenal Hill after the territorial arsenal built on the present site of the Utah State Capitol in 1860...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tudorbethan Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Tudorbethan Architecture - 21st-century Tudorbethan
Tudorbethan is not popular with modernist architects and is frequently reviled as pastiche or indeed non-architecture. However it is much...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Architecture Of The United States - Frontier Vernacular
The Homestead Act of 1862 brought property ownership within reach for millions of citizens, displaced native peoples, and changed the cha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - Early Years
Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin was the son of an émigré French architect who came to England to escape the Revolution. His father, Augu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Pugin: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Pugin - Early Years
Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin was the son of an émigré French architect who came to England to escape the Revolution. His father, Augu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rockville Connecticut: Encyclopedia Ii - Rockville Connecticut - Landmarks
An area of Rockville known as the Rockville Historic District roughly bounded by Shenipsit Street, Davis Avenue, West Street and South St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian Architecture - Climate And Geography
Canada's geography is highly diverse, and there are thus important differences in architecture. In most of Canada building materials are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Novel - Examples
Gothic novel - Gothic satire. Northanger Abbey (1818) by Jane Austen (Full text at Wikisource) Nightmare Abbey (1818) by Thomas Love ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Lawson Architect: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Lawson Architect - Early Life
Lawson was the fourth child of James Lawson, a carpenter, and his wife, Margaret. The young Lawson was educated at the local parish schoo...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap V - G
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages V - G . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. &...   » Read the article