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Victorian Architecture

Victorian architecture developed in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Some key styles that emerged during this period included Jacobethan, Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Arts and Crafts. Important architects like Joseph Paxton, Anthony Salvin, and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie designed homes in these styles. Victorian styles also spread internationally to places like North America, Australia, and elsewhere.

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Victorian Architecture

Victorian architecture developed in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Some key styles that emerged during this period included Jacobethan, Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Arts and Crafts. Important architects like Joseph Paxton, Anthony Salvin, and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie designed homes in these styles. Victorian styles also spread internationally to places like North America, Australia, and elsewhere.

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Victorian Architecture

Marina Movchan
Queen Victoria
(reign: 20 June 1837
– 22 January 1901)
Victorian architecture in the United
Kingdom

Mentmore Towers

Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace
Archibald Simpson,
North of Scotland Bank
St. Mark’s Church by
in Aberdeen
Alexander Thomson, Alexander Marshall
Mackenzie
Holmwood House
Styles conceived in the Victorian era

 Jacobethan (1830–70)

Anthony Salvin's Harlaxton Manor


 Renaissance Revival (1840–90)

Mentmore Towers National Westminster Bank


 Neo-Grec (1845–65)
 Romanesque Revival
 Second Empire (1855–80)

Old Billingsgate Market, by John Jay Grosvenor Hotel


 Queen Anne (1870–1910)

County Hall, Wakefield, designed


by architects James Glen
Sivewright Gibson and Samuel
Russell in 1894.
 British Arts and Crafts movement (1880–
1910)

Blackwell by Baillie Scott


Other movements popularized in the
period
 Gothic Revival

Palace of Westminster,
completed in 1870. Fonthill Abbey by
Designed by Sir Charles William Thomas Manchester Town Hall by
Barry and August Pugin Beckford Alfred Waterhouse
 Italianate

Osborne House completed Cliveden: Barry's Neo-


1851 (by Sir Charles Barry) Renaissance mansion
 Neoclassicism

Glasgow City Chambers by John


Carrick
International spread of Victorian
styles

William Butterfield

Jacob Wrey Mould

St. Peters Cathedral, Adelaide


North America

Banff Springs Hotel by The Saitta House,


Bruce Price and Walter S. Dyker Heights,
Painter Brooklyn (“Queen
Anne”) by René
Edward De Russy
Australia

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Bibliography
 Dixon, Roger and Muthesius, Stephan. Victorian
architecture. Thames & Hudson: 1978. ISBN 0-
500-18163-2
 Prentice, Helaine Kaplan, Rehab Right, Ten-
Speed Press. ISBN 0-89815-172-4, includes
descriptions of different Victorian and early 20th
Century architectural styles common in the San
Francisco Bay Area, particularly Oakland, and
detailed instructions for repair and restoration of
details common to older house styles.
Thank you for attention!

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