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15 unusual facts about Gothic architecture


Burg Wittelsbach

In the 15th century, the Gothic church Beatae Mariae Virginis was built on the former castle site.

Czudec

In 1938 and 1954, archaeologists found here several examples of Gothic brick walls.

David Macaulay

His first book, Cathedral (1973), was a history, extensively illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, of the construction of a fictitious but representative Gothic cathedral.

Demetri Porphyrios

Most of his buildings resemble traditional high architecture such as Gothic and Greco-Roman Classical buildings.

Emma Tennant

Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family's faux Gothic mansion The Glen in Peeblesshire.

Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art

Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aedicules replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval buildings.

La Serranía

Also of note is the Bonaval Monastery, in the Jarama valley, near Retiendas, dating originally to 1162 and mixing Romanesque with Gothic.

Morović

The old Catholic church from the 13th century, built in both romanesque and gothic styles is a very noteworthy monument.

New Brunswick Route 1

However, the city, along with the provincial and federal governments, decided to bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to purchase the majority of the Mill Street Yard near the neo-gothic Union Station for a highway alignment which would run through the middle of the city (somewhat like the infamous Interstate 93 alignment which was built through Boston).

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Rudy, Silesian Voivodeship

With history going back to the 13th century, it is a site of a gothic Cistercian palace-monastery.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Construction of the Temple, an immense German Gothic structure located near Lake Michigan and across from the Northwestern University campus, was started in 1929, and the building was dedicated in the winter of 1930.

The English House

Domestic architecture of the late nineteenth century was a mix of classicism, renaissance and gothic styles and therefore needed redefinition.

Upper Derwent Valley

In 1899, the Derwent Valley Water Board was set up to supply water to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the two Gothic-style dams were built across the River Derwent to create Howden Reservoir (1912) and Derwent Reservoir (1916).

Wąsosz, Podlaskie Voivodeship

One of the most impressive points of interest in Wąsosz is its late Gothic church from 1508, with three altars adorned with religious paintings.


Abbey of St. Vaast

The abbey church, which had been desecrated and partially destroyed, was rebuilt and consecrated in 1833 and now serves as the cathedral of Arras, substituting for the former Gothic cathedral destroyed during the Revolution.

Alisma

The nineteenth century British art and social critic John Ruskin believed that the particular curve of the leaf-ribs of Alisma represented a model of 'divine proportion' and helped shape his theory of Gothic architecture.

All Saints Cathedral, Chicago

There are strong parallels between the church's internal painting scheme with its art nouveau-like flairs and the painter of many of Kraków's most famous Gothic churches Stanisław Wyspiański, making the church unique in this respect among Chicago's Polish churches.

Altes Schloss

The Altes Schloss ("Old Castle") near Bad Berneck in south Germany is a ruined castle built in the Gothic style as an Amtsburg towards the end of the High Middle Ages.

Alvito Municipality

The Castle of Alvito was rebuilt between 1494 and 1504, and its architecture and decoration show an interesting mix of Manueline (Portuguese late Gothic) and Mudéjar (Arab-influenced) styles, typical of the Alentejo region.

Avranches Cathedral

The seat of the Bishop of Avranches, it was a Gothic construction, notable as the place of the penance of Henry II of England in 1172 for the murder of Thomas Becket.

Bailiffscourt Chapel

Originally associated with the Norman Abbey of Séez, it was founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in its present simple Gothic form in the 13th century.

Baptistery

The circular domed Baptistry of St. John clad in white marble in the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, built in stages from 1150 and combining Romanesque with Gothic.

Blois Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Louis of Blois, commonly referred to as Blois Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Blois; Cathédrale Blois) is a Late Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in Blois, France.

Bosherston

Since its restoration by the Cawdor family in 1855, its highbacked old pews have disappeared and its Norman windows have been replaced by those of later Gothic design.

Buxton Memorial Fountain

It was designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873) in 1865 coincidentally with the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which effectively ended the western slave-trade.

Cass Peak

The original Gothic architecture railway station in Christchurch's Moorhouse Avenue, opened in 1876, was built of red brick, with stone facings from Cass Peak as architectural elements.

Divi Blasii, Mühlhausen

The Gothic architecture of the church is said to have been an influence on the design of Brooklyn Bridge by John A. Roebling who grew up in Mühlhausen.

Geisenhausen

The parish church St. Martin from the second half of the 15th century is a brick building in gothic style similar to its larger namesake in Landshut.

Hunseby

Dating at least from the middle of the 12th century, Hunseby Church has a Romanesque chancel and nave and a Gothic tower.

John Henry Chamberlain

The first of these to be completed, Eld's house at 12 Ampton Road, Edgbaston (1855) survives to this day and already shows many of the features that would characterise much of Chamberlain's later work: a gothic structure in polychromatic brick with finely crafted decoration inspired by natural and organic forms.

John Rhind

His Glasgow experience, and bold if unacademic handling of Gothic and Scots baronial forms quickly made him a serious rival to Alexander Ross.

Józef Plośko

The church was constructed in gothic style, with usage of elements of Polish gothic style, which had a peculiar pompousness and richness of decorative forms, unlike the French and English styles.

La Seu Vella, Lleida

The cathedral is designed in a transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic.

Leopoldsberg

The Romanesque-Gothic basilica as well as the copper dome with the imperial crown can be seen.

Louviers

The 16th century porch on the south side is an example of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture.

Mount Street Gardens

The church, built between 1844 and 1849, was in a decorated gothic-style, designed by Joseph John Scoles, and with the altar by A.W.N. Pugin, and is now a Grade II* listed building.

Orvieto Cathedral

But when Giovanni di Uguccione succeeded Fra Bevignate, the design was transformed into Italian Gothic forms.

Periodization

However, other terms, such as Gothic architecture, used to refer to a style typical of the High Middle Ages have largely lost the negative connotations they initially had, acquiring new meanings over time (see Gothic architecture and Goth subculture).

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Saenredam's paintings frequently show medieval churches, usually Gothic, but sometimes late Romanesque, which had been stripped bare of their original decorations after the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation.

Považský hrad

Three kilometres away in the town's centre was a Gothic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary.

Reginald Ely

Reginald Ely (fl. 1438 - 1471) was an English gothic architect responsible for much of the design (but likely not the fan vaults) of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

Roger Newdigate

He lavished attention on the Elizabethan Arbury Hall which he rebuilt over a period of thirty years in splendid Gothic Renaissance style, engaging the services of the architect Henry Couchman.

Schlüsselfeld

in Schlüsselfeld: the Town Gate Tower with remains of the town wall and two round towers, the Petrusbrunnen (fountain), the Old Town Hall with pillory, the New Town Hall, the Gothic parish church, the Klein-Mariazell im Steigerwald church (with a copy of the Icon of Mariazell in the Steiermark, Austria)

St. Mungo's Parish Church

Gothic louth-spire tops the building, so called because it was based on a fifteenth-century design at Louth, Lincolnshire.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Poe may have been using these terms as subdivisions of Gothic art or Gothic architecture in an attempt to establish similar subdivisions in Gothic fiction.

The Genius of Christianity

Written in a Classical style, but early Romantic in sensibility, it glorified new sources of inspiration, such as Gothic architecture and the great epics of the Middle Ages.

Tunø

Tunø church was most likely built in the 14th century in a Romanesque style, however it has undergone many refurbishments and now stands as a Gothic church with stepped gables or corbie steps.

Waxahachie Global High School

The architectural aspects of Global's exterior have been richly debated by students and staff alike, and it has been concluded that the building is primarily Federal and Art Deco style, with trace elements of Gothic, Greek Revival and Split Level stylings.

West Bromwich Town Hall

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and the building contractors were Trow & Sons of Wednesbury.