Eclectic Gothic Roofline

Sir George Gilbert Scott

1868-77

St. Pancras Station

Photograph and text by George P. Landow

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The enormously complex and lavish decoration that appears on the façade continues on the roof of this lavish commercial building: combinations of slate, stone and brick, polychromy, corbels, and wonderful chimneys.

References

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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Last modified 18 July 2001