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The Gothic Revival in the North of England

Jonathan Foyle outlines the way the great civic buildings of Victorian northern England were instrumental in creating a blueprint for the world鈥檚 industrial cities. The formally elegant neo-classical buildings of the early industrial age were gradually supplanted by new public buildings in a style that harked back to Britain鈥檚 own medieval past - gothic became the mid-nineteenth century鈥檚 civic style of choice, encapsulating freedom and versatility.

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