Ruskinian Gothic Windows, St. Pancras Station and Midland Grand Hotel, London. Architect: Sir George Gilbert Scott. 1868-77. Photograph and text by George P. Landow [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.]
Note the enormously complex and lavish decoration for a commercial building: combinations of stone and brick, polychromy, carved heads, elaborate quasi-byzantine capitals, layered ogee arches — do such occur in Venice or anywhere else? I've never seen them — and elaborate wrought-iron metalwork.
References
Brooks, Chris. The Gothic Revival. London: Phaidon, 1999.
Crook, J. Mordaunt. The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Meeks, Carol L. V. The Victorian Railroad Station: An Architectural History. New Haven: Yale UP, 1956.
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