A History of the Gothic Revival
An Attempt to Show How the Taste for Medieval Architecture which Lingered in England during the Two Last Centuries Has since Been Encouraged and Developed

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

Charles Locke Eastlake (Author)

9781108051910, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 June 2012

520 pages, 12 b/w illus. 34 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.76 kg

Charles Locke Eastlake (1833–1906), an interior, furniture and industrial designer, showed talent as an architect and was awarded a Silver Medal in 1854 by the Royal Academy. He is known for influencing the style of later nineteenth-century 'Modern' Gothic furniture with his Hints on Household Taste (1868), but his passion for medieval architecture developed much earlier while he was in Europe during the 1850s. In 1866 he became Secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and it was in 1872 that this work was published. The book is notable for being released at the height of the Gothic Revival movement in the later nineteenth century. It includes detailed comments on the architects, societies, literature and buildings that formed the cornerstones of the Gothic Revival, primarily in Britain, from around 1650 to 1870. A valuable mine of information, it remains a key source on the topic.

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.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]