Editing Gothic Revival architecture (section)

=== Romantic challenges ===
During the mid-18th century rise of [[Romanticism]], an increased interest and awareness of the [[Middle Ages in history|Middle Ages]] among influential connoisseurs created a more appreciative approach to selected [[medieval]] arts, beginning with church architecture, the tomb monuments of royal and noble personages, stained glass, and late Gothic illuminated manuscripts. Other Gothic arts, such as tapestries and metalwork, continued to be disregarded as barbaric and crude, however sentimental and nationalist associations with historical figures were as strong in this early revival as purely aesthetic concerns.{{sfn|Aldrich|2005|p=140}}

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| footer = [[Strawberry Hill House]], [[Twickenham]], London; 1749 by [[Horace Walpole]] (1717–1797). "The seminal house of the Gothic Revival in England", it established the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style{{sfn|Chalcraft|Viscardi|2007|p=7}}}}

[[German Romanticism|German Romanticists]] (including philosopher and writer [[Goethe]] and architect [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]]), began to appreciate the [[picturesque]] character of ruins—"picturesque" becoming a new aesthetic quality—and those mellowing effects of time that the Japanese call ''[[wabi-sabi]]'' and that [[Horace Walpole]] independently admired, mildly tongue-in-cheek, as "the true rust of the Barons' wars".{{efn|This was Walpole's appraisal of the sham castle at [[Hagley Park, Worcestershire]] designed by his friend, [[Sanderson Miller]].{{sfn|Brooks|Pevsner|2007|p=339}}}}{{sfn|Brooks|Pevsner|2007|p=339}} The "Gothick" details of Walpole's Twickenham villa, [[Strawberry Hill House]] begun in 1749, appealed to the [[rococo]] tastes of the time,{{efn|Tours of the house, conducted by Walpole's housekeeper, Margaret Young, proved hugely popular. Walpole wrote to a friend; "I am so tormented by droves of people coming to see my house, and Margaret gets such sums of money by showing it, that I have a mind to marry her".{{sfn|Chalcraft|Viscardi|2007|p=20}}}}<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Strawberry Hill (St Mary's Training College)|num=1261987|grade=I|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> and were fairly quickly followed by James Talbot at [[Lacock Abbey]], Wiltshire.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Lacock Abbey with Stable Yard|num=1283853|grade=I|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> By the 1770s, thoroughly neoclassical architects such as [[Robert Adam]] and [[James Wyatt]] were prepared to provide Gothic details in drawing-rooms, libraries and chapels and, for William Beckford at [[Fonthill Abbey|Fonthill]] in Wiltshire, a complete romantic vision of a Gothic abbey.{{efn|Alfred's Hall, built by [[Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst|Lord Bathurst]] on his [[Cirencester Park (country house)|Cirencester Park]] estate between 1721 and 1732 in homage to [[Alfred the Great]],<ref>{{NHLE|num=1298719|desc=Alfreds Hall, Cirencester Park|grade=II*|access-date=2 May 2020}}</ref> is perhaps the earliest Gothic Revival structure in England.{{sfn|Charlesworth|2002a|p=14}}}}{{sfn|Aldrich|2005|pp=82–83}}

Some of the earliest architectural examples of the revived are found in Scotland. [[Inveraray Castle]], constructed from 1746 for the [[Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll|Duke of Argyll]], with design input from [[William Adam (architect)|William Adam]], displays the incorporation of turrets.{{efn|The little-researched [[Clearwell Castle]] in Gloucestershire, by [[Roger Morris (1695–1749)|Roger Morris]] who also undertook work at [[Inveraray Castle|Inveraray]], has been described as "the earliest Gothick Revival castle in England".{{sfn|Verey|Brooks|2002|pp=310-311}}}} The architectural historian John Gifford writes that the castellations were the "symbolic assertion of the still quasi-feudal power [the duke] exercised over the inhabitants within his heritable jurisdictions".{{sfn|Gifford|1989|p=161}} Most buildings were still largely in the established [[Palladian]] style, but some houses incorporated external features of the Scots baronial style. Robert Adam's houses in this style include [[Mellerstain]]{{sfn|Cruft|Dunbar|Fawcett|2006|p=529}} and [[Wedderburn Castle|Wedderburn]]{{sfn|Cruft|Dunbar|Fawcett|2006|p=744}} in Berwickshire and [[Seton Castle]] in East Lothian,{{sfn|McWilliam|1978|pp=428–431}} but it is most clearly seen at [[Culzean Castle]], Ayrshire, remodelled by Adam from 1777.{{sfn|Whyte|Whyte|1991|p=100}} The eccentric landscape designer [[Batty Langley]] even attempted to "improve" Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=15&cid=10&ctid=1|title=Batty Langley, gardener and prolific writer|publisher=Twickenham Museum|website=www.twickenham-museum.org.uk|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref>

[[File:Basilica of Saint Clotilde Sanctuary, Paris, France - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Basilica of Sainte Clotilde Sanctuary, Paris, France]]

A younger generation, taking Gothic architecture more seriously, provided the readership for John Britton's series ''Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain'', which began appearing in 1807.{{sfn|Macaulay|1975|p=174}} In 1817, [[Thomas Rickman]] wrote an ''Attempt...'' to name and define the sequence of Gothic styles in English ecclesiastical architecture, "a text-book for the architectural student". Its long antique title is descriptive: ''Attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation; preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings''. The categories he used were [[Norman architecture|Norman]], [[Early English Period|Early English]], [[Decorated Gothic|Decorated]], and [[Perpendicular Period|Perpendicular]]. It went through numerous editions, was still being republished by 1881, and has been reissued in the 21st century.{{efn|[[Thomas Rickman]] trained as an accountant and his posthumous famed rested on his antiquarian researches, rather than his considerable corpus of buildings, which were disparaged as the creations of a "self-taught" architect. It was only towards the end of his life, and after, that the position of architect was recognised as a profession, with the establishment of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects|Institute of British Architects]] in 1834 and the [[Architectural Association School of Architecture|Architectural Association]] in 1847.{{sfn|Aldrich|2019|p=25}}}}{{sfn|Rickman|1848|p=47}}

The most common use for Gothic Revival architecture was in the building of churches. Major examples of Gothic cathedrals in the U.S. include the cathedrals of [[Cathedral of St. John the Divine|St. John the Divine]] and [[St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)|St. Patrick]] in New York City and the [[Washington National Cathedral]] on Mount St. Alban in northwest [[Washington, D.C.]] One of the biggest churches in Gothic Revival style in Canada is the [[Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate]] in [[Guelph|Guelph, Ontario]].<ref name=Shannon>{{cite web |author=Shannon Kyles|title=Gothic Revival (1750–1900) |publisher=Ontario Architecture|url=http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/gothicrevival.html|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref>

Gothic Revival architecture remained one of the most popular and long-lived of the many [[Revivalism (architecture)|revival styles of architecture]]. Although it began to lose force and popularity after the third quarter of the 19th century in commercial, residential and industrial fields, some buildings such as churches, schools, colleges and universities were still constructed in the Gothic style, often known as "Collegiate Gothic", which remained popular in England, Canada and in the United States until well into the early to mid-20th century. Only when new materials, like steel and glass along with concern for function in everyday working life and saving space in the cities, meaning the need to build up instead of out, began to take hold did the Gothic Revival start to disappear from popular building requests.<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] Online |title=Gothic Revival |access-date=8 October 2013 |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/239789/Gothic-Revival }}</ref>