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Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-1898), pupil of his father, was a "Rogue" British architect, practising in the Victorian High Gothic revival style. He designed mostly churches and institutional buildings in Scotland. Typical of his work is the Barclay Viewforth Church in Edinburgh, a polychrome stone structure with early French Gothic details ...
A stylistic change too place in the first half of the 14th century. Many windows from this period survive on Gotland. [36] Among the few well-preserved medieval stained glass windows on mainland Sweden, one from Skärkind Church in Östergötland and three from Sköllersta Church in Närke also date from this period.
Pointed arch windows of Gothic buildings were initially (late 12th–late 13th centuries) lancet windows, a solution typical of the Early Gothic or First Pointed style and of the Early English Gothic. [1] [5] Plate tracery was the first type of tracery to be developed, emerging in the style called High Gothic. [1]
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English Gothic stained glass windows were an important feature of English Gothic architecture, which appeared between the late 12th and late 16th centuries.They evolved from narrow windows filled with a mosaic of deeply-coloured pieces of glass into gigantic windows that filled entire walls, with a full range of colours and more naturalistic figures.
The sheriff court in Greenock (1869) is a typical Scottish Baronial building with crow-stepped gables and corbelled corner turrets.. Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
Trinity Church owns thirteen opalescent windows, one by the prestigious studio of J&R Lamb (The Nativity, c.1905) and a dozen by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Dating 1898 to 1936, these windows offer a rare variety of subjects and show the development of Tiffany's style. Most of the windows bear a signature; Some are dated.
Gothic book illustration, or gothic illumination, originated in France and England around 1160/70, while Romanesque forms remained dominant in Germany until around 1300. Throughout the Gothic period , France remained the leading artistic nation, influencing the stylistic developments in book illustration .