Editing Queen Anne style architecture (section)

==British Queen Anne Revival==
[[File:New Scotland Yard, Victoria Embankment (geograph 5650866).jpg|thumb|[[Norman Shaw Buildings]], London]]
{{main|Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom}}

[[George Devey]] (1820–1886) and the better-known [[Richard Norman Shaw|Norman Shaw]] (1831–1912) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the [[industrial age]] in the 1870s. Norman Shaw published a book of architectural sketches as early as 1858, and his evocative pen-and-ink drawings began to appear in trade journals and artistic magazines in the 1870s. American commercial builders quickly adopted the style.

Shaw's eclectic designs often included [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] elements, and this "Old English" style also became popular in the United States, where it became known (inaccurately) as the Queen Anne style. Confusion between buildings constructed during the reign of Queen Anne and the "Queen Anne" style persists, especially in England.

British Victorian Queen Anne architecture empathises more closely with the [[Arts and Crafts movement]] than its American counterpart. A good example is [[Severalls Hospital]] in Colchester, Essex (1913–1997), which is now defunct.

The historical precedents of the architectural style were broad and several:
* fine brickwork, often in a warmer, softer finish than the Victorians characteristically used, varied with terracotta panels or tile-hung upper storeys, with crisply-painted white woodwork or blond limestone detailing
* [[oriel window]]s, often stacked one above another
* corner towers
* asymmetrical fronts and picturesque massing
* Flemish [[mannerism|mannerist]] sunken panels of [[strapwork]]
* deeply shadowed entrances
* broad porches
* overall, a domesticated free Renaissance style

In the 20th century, [[Edwin Lutyens]] and others used an elegant version of the style, usually with red-brick walls contrasting with pale stone details.