Certainly, the new trend in architecture dominated construction in the ... and towns and castles were surrounded by defensive walls. Among the Gothic monuments preserved to this day, churches are the ...

I’m not quite sure why. I love Gothic church architecture above all others; S-S is a Late Gothic building, distinguished by the twisted interior columns and the flame-like exterior stonework.

The wealthy had mock-medieval buildings built for them, and some even constructed Gothic ruins (known as 'follies') in their gardens. In the mid-18th Century, in literature as in architecture ...