Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Ancient and modern architecture; 2. Anthony à Wood; 3. Horace Walpole; 4. The Georgian era; 5. Difficulties of classification; 6. A retrospect; 7. Sir Walter Scott; 8. The pointed arch question; 9. A. N. Welby Pugin; 10. Sir Charles Barry; 11. Revival of ecclesiastical architecture; 12. AD 1840–50; 13. The Rev. J. L. Petit; 14. New churches in London; 15. 'Ruskinism'; 16. The Great Exhibition of 1851; 17. Deficiency of public interest; 18. Influence of individual taste; 19. A truce to the battle of the styles; 20. AD 1860–70; Selected examples of Gothic buildings.

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Published in 1872, this work details the architects, societies, literature and buildings central to the British Gothic Revival (c.1650–1870).