Gothic Revivalist

During his stay he worked at the office of the Gothic Revivalist William Burges.

As an architect he is one of the most interesting and least known of the Victorian Gothic Revivalists.'

It rejected what Morris saw as a too-pat imitation of medieval art by some Gothic Revivalists.

The style combined motifs from different eras of Gothic architecture, with those invented by more recent Gothic revivalists.

An avid reader of British art and Gothic Revivalist John Ruskin, some of his designs such as for Visitation have a very unusually sophisticated design.

He sent them to the celebrated dilettante and Gothic Revivalist Horace Walpole, whose pseudo-castle, Strawberry Hill, was itself a copy of a medieval structure.

Oxenford Farm, a noted piece of vernacular and pro-abbatial architecture by the famous Gothic Revivalist Augustus Pugin, located near the A3 road in Surrey.

In 1865 the church was restored and the bell tower was rebuilt inder the direction of the Oxford Diocesan architect and Gothic Revivalist G.E. Street.

In 1996 he was commissioned to paint a mural of Calvary - a landscape illuminated by a mystical light - for the Gothic Revivalist Truro Cathedral in Cornwall.

The style was actively promoted by a number of extant artistic and architectural institutions and groups, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Arts and Crafts Movement and Gothic revivalists.

Built between 1885 and 1886 in the Early English Gothic style by Sir Arthur Blomfield, "one of the last great Gothic revivalists", the church was embroiled in controversy as soon as it was founded.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin was largely Norman until the Oxford Diocesan architect, the Gothic Revivalist G.E. Street almost completely rebuilt it in 1854.

Whether disrepair or the aversion of the Gothic Revivalists to the old Georgian fittings prompted this movement is not apparent, but Buckler's report would suggest that his leanings are certainly in the direction of reform, though he does not advise any very drastic change.

In 1862 lightning struck and damaged the church, and in 1864 the Oxford Diocesan architect, the Gothic Revivalist G.E. Street directed a restoration of St. Nicholas' that the 20th century critics Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner called "rather insensitive".

In a way similar to the Gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere.