It’s still fairly dark, an architecture of walls and planes and volumes.” Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ...

This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, with a need to understand the different styles of Gothic architecture. In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of ...

The Romanesque buildings were coarse and dark, the Gothic ones gained lightness ... rather a transitional period between Romanism and mature Gothic. Certainly, the new trend in architecture dominated ...

What is revealed with the restoration of Gothic architecture is a newfound appreciation for the many colours that these buildings were painted with. Many parts of Gothic cathedrals — especially ...

Closely associated with the Cambridge Camden (later Ecclesiological) Society, promoting “the study of Gothic Architecture, and of Ecclesiastical Antiques”, Butterfield was the Tractarian ...