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Victorian gothic may refer to:
- Gothic fiction, a type of fiction writing that began in the Victorian period
- Gothic Revival architecture, a type of architecture based on a mediaeval style revived in the Victorian period
Usage examples of "victorian gothic".
Ysfael done up in the height of Victorian Gothic style, and they were determined that not a brass ornament or an encaustic tile should be changed.
There is a lot of Victorian Gothic and some earlier Gothic Revival stuff in the catalogue.
Resembling the dining-hall of a rich Oxford college, it was a heavy and soot-blackened essay in Victorian gothic by Barry, architect of the rebuilt Houses of Parliament.
Pierre was little more than a rock lifting a hundred or so feet out of the sea and crowned by the Victorian Gothic Castle.
And our local Catholic church in Shropshire is so beautiful: Victorian Gothic revival, with an elegant, dizzying spire, and an altar designed by Pugin.
They lived in the fashionable Frenchtown area to the west, not too far from the Race Course, in a large Victorian Gothic house which Karl's father had purchased very reasonably from the American who had previously owned it.
He remembered passing a church, built in Victorian gothic, on his way to the area where the house and road he sought had been swallowed up.
Then he dropped it and stumbled a few feet away to the body of Brother Anthony, like a broken marionette among the frilled Victorian gothic of the pinchbeck tombs.
Their styles were a mixture of Victorian Gothic and anything else the architect chose to incorporate.
Again one finds a strange mixture of the old Chinese architecture - impressive, complicated buildings embellished with intricate ceramic work - and more modern buildings, some of them very dull, but some of them wonders of late Victorian Gothic which, fortunately, is beginning to disappear in Europe to be replaced by the more gracious architecture of those influenced by the Art Nouveau movements.
This was the front, the formal entrance, but the adjective was screamingly inappropriate for what she beheld: Victorian Gothic at its best, or worst, with the wonderful indifference to coherence that had marked some of the more entertaining examples of the genre.
McGill, had a Victorian Gothic white frame house on Melville Avenue in Mystic, Connecticut.