![]() Nineteenth-century architect John Carter considered the word Gothic “a barbarous appellation” and argued that it should simply be called “English.” In the midst of a long war with revolutionary France, Carter declared the Gothic “our National Architecture,” rooted in centuries of tradition. Photograph by Angelo Hornak, Corbis/Getty Images Gothic Revival architecture of the Victorian era rekindled elements of this medieval style. ![]() Right: Dating from 1245, Westminster Abbey is one of the world’s most well-known Gothic buildings. ![]() ( These are some of Europe’s most extraordinary cathedrals.) Rekindling elements from the greatest medieval cathedrals in Europe, such as London’s Westminster Abbey and Paris’s Notre Dame, Gothic Revival architecture defined the imperial might of Victorian England. ![]() In Britain, it was only in the revival of this medieval style of architecture that it started to be called “Gothic.” The Revivalists no longer dismissed the Gothic as a crude or barbarous form, and instead repurposed it as a national, patriotic style.īy knowing this deeper history of some of Europe’s most iconic buildings, travelers can approach these well-known attractions with new eyes and can appreciate that the “East-West divide” isn’t as deep as we are often led to think. ![]() ( Three years after a devastating fire, Notre Dame rises again.)īut from early in the 19th century, these contributions were forgotten, and Gothic became celebrated as an intrinsically Northern European style. ![]()
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