Gothic Revival
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Gothic Revival was a movement in architecture during the 18th and 19th centuries in which builders deliberately imitated the pointed arches, decorative details, and other features of medieval Gothic buildings. The style mattered because it represented a major shift in taste away from the simpler classical designs that had dominated architecture, and it influenced how countless public buildings, churches, and homes were designed across Europe and America.
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Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built between 1899 and 1908 The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah (Georgia, United States)
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England. Increasingly serious and learned admirers sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic Revival had become the pre-eminent architectural style in the Western world, only to begin to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s.