Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill

Lindfield, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-9344 2020. Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. Wright, Angela and Townshend, Dale, eds. The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1. vol. 4. Cambridge University Press, pp. 97-119. (10.1017/9781108561044.005)

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Abstract

The Gothic Revival is generally considered to have begun in eighteenth-century Britain with the construction of Horace Walpole’s villa, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in the late 1740s. As this chapter demonstrates, however, Strawberry Hill is in no way the first building, domestic or otherwise, to have recreated, even superficially, some aspect of the form and ornamental style of medieval architecture. Earlier architects who, albeit often combining it with Classicism, worked in the Gothic style include Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent and Batty Langley, aspects of whose works are explored here. While not an exhaustive survey of pre-1750 Gothic Revival design, the examples considered in this chapter reveal how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gothic emerged and evolved over the course of different architects’ careers, and how, by the time that Walpole came to create his own Gothic ‘castle’, there was already in existence in Britain a sustained Gothic Revivalist tradition.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781108472708
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2023 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159818

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