Editing Gothic Revival architecture (section)

==Vernacular adaptations and the revival in Oceania==
{{Main|Carpenter Gothic}}
[[Carpenter Gothic]] houses and small churches became common in North America and other places in the late 19th century.{{sfn|Poppeliers|Chambers|Schwartz|1979}} These structures adapted Gothic elements such as pointed arches, steep gables, and towers to traditional American [[light-frame construction]]. The invention of the [[scroll saw]] and mass-produced wood moldings allowed a few of these structures to mimic the florid [[Window|fenestration]] of the High Gothic. But, in most cases, Carpenter Gothic buildings were relatively unadorned, retaining only the basic elements of pointed-arch windows and steep gables. A well-known example of Carpenter Gothic is a house in [[Eldon, Iowa]], that [[Grant Wood]] used for the background of his painting [[American Gothic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wapellocounty.org/americangothic/index.htm |title=American Gothic House Center |publisher= Wapello County Conservation Board|website=Wapellocounty.org |date=18 December 2009 |access-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618032007/http://www.wapellocounty.org/americangothic/index.htm |archive-date=18 June 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===Australia===
Australia, in particular in Melbourne and Sydney, saw the construction of large numbers of Gothic Revival buildings. [[William Wardell]] (1823–1899) was among the country's most prolific architects; born and trained in England, after emigrating his most notable Australian designs include [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne]] and [[St John's College, University of Sydney|St John's College]] and [[St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney|St Mary's Cathedral]] in Sydney. In common with many other 19th century architects, Wardell could deploy different styles at the command of his clients; [[Government House, Melbourne]] is [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.federation-house.com/gothic-revival|title=Gothic-Revival|first=Jon|last=Ruwolt|publisher=Federation House|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> His banking house for the [[English, Scottish and Australian Bank]] in Melbourne has been described as "the Australian masterpiece of neo-Gothic".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.domain.com.au/news/golden-era-of-neogothic-20101112-17qbi/|title=Golden era of neo-Gothic|first=Jenny|last=Brown|publisher=Domain|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> This claim has also been made for [[Edmund Blacket]]'s [[Great Hall of the University of Sydney|MacLaurin Hall]] at the [[University of Sydney]],{{sfn|Finnerty|2001|p=38}} which sits in the [[University of Sydney Quadrangle|quadrangle complex]] described as "arguably the most important group of Gothic and Tudor Revival style architecture in Australia".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://architectureau.com/articles/university-of-sydney-receives-state-heritage-listing/|title=University of Sydney receives state heritage listing|publisher=ARCHITECTUREAU|website=ArchitectureAU.com|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref>

===New Zealand===
[[File:Old St Paul's church, Wellington, 2016-01-25-7.jpg|thumb|right|Old St Paul's in [[Wellington, New Zealand]]]]
[[Benjamin Mountfort]], born in Britain, trained in Birmingham, and subsequently resident in [[Canterbury, New Zealand]] imported the Gothic Revival style to his adopted country and designed Gothic Revival churches in both wood and stone, notably in the city of [[Christchurch]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1m57/mountfort-benjamin-woolfield|title=Mountfort, Benjamin Woolfield|author=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography|publisher=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage|website=teara.govt.nz|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> 

[[Frederick Thatcher]] designed wooden churches in the Gothic Revival style, for example [[Old St. Paul's, Wellington]], contributing to what has been described as New Zealand's "one memorable contribution to world architecture".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/old-saint-pauls|title=Old St Paul's|publisher=New Zealand history online|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> [[St Mary of the Angels, Wellington]] by [[Frederick de Jersey Clere]] is in the French Gothic style, and was the first Gothic design church built in ferro-concrete.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz/architects/frederick-de-jersey-clere|title=Frederick de Jersey Clere – Wellington Heritage|publisher=Wellington City Council|website=wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> Other examples in [[Wellington]] include [[John Sydney Swan]]'s now-demolished [[Erskine College, Wellington|Erskine College]].

The style also found favour in the southern New Zealand city of [[Dunedin]], where the wealth brought in by the [[Otago gold rush]] of the 1860s allowed for substantial stone edifices to be constructed, using hard, dark [[breccia]] stone and a local white limestone, [[Oamaru stone]]. Among them were [[Maxwell Bury]]'s [[University of Otago Registry Building]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/44761/university-of-otago-building-dunedin|title=University of Otago building, Dunedin|first=Maxwell|last=Bury|publisher=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage|website=teara.govt.nz|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> and the [[Dunedin Law Courts]] by [[John Campbell (architect)|John Campbell]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz/architects/government-architect-john-campbell|title=Government Architect – John Campbell – Wellington Heritage|publisher=Wellington City Council|website=wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref>

Welsh-born [[William Henry Skinner|William Skinner]] designed the third and current building for [[St Paul's Church, Auckland|St Paul's]] in [[Auckland]] in the Gothic Revival style. Known as the [[Mother church|'Mother Church']], due to its foundation within a year of the city’s establishment in 1841, the dark [[Rangitoto Island|Rangitoto]] [[basalt]] and light Oamaru limestone church was consecrated in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St Paul's Church (Anglican) |url=https://www.heritage.org.nz/list-details/650/Listing |access-date=31 May 2025 |website=Heritage New Zealand}}</ref> Skinner also designed the [[Agathis|kauri]] timber St James' Union Church in [[Thames, New Zealand|Thames]] in the Gothic style.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St James' Union Church |url=https://www.heritage.org.nz/list-details/131/Listing |access-date=31 May 2025 |website=Heritage New Zealand}}</ref>

===Pacific islands===
Several examples of Gothic Revival architecture can be found among the buildings of the Pacific islands. Notable among these is [[Sacred Heart Church, Levuka|Sacred Heart Church]] in [[Levuka]], [[Fiji]], built by Father Louyot in 1858. This unusual structure consists of a church and presbytery in a local version of [[Carpenter Gothic]] alongside a stone church tower.