Why did gothic architecture experience a revival?
Gothic architecture was seen as architecture of the dark ages. It was what the so-called Renaissance acted against. With the Rand reformation and the Renaissance and the revival of classical architecture and so forth, gothic is confined to the Dark Ages. But beginning in the later 18th century in England, there is a beginning of an interest in gothic architecture. People begin to sort of rediscover it. It was seen in a very nationalistic sort of a sense in that it was very English even if there was a feeling that the English had gone down the wrong road and followed those darn Italians into the Renaissance. So there was a feeling that they should get away from all of that and back to their roots. And that was gothic architecture. What happened to the gothic revival? Gothic revival in different variations continued on well into the 20th century. That National Cathedral is gothic revival although it’s a much different kind of gothic revival. Another example in Alexandria would be the Sec
