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The Gothic style is most common in church architecture. Characteristic is the slender elegance and delicately paneled surfaces of St. Mary's. Planes and volumes are neatly defined and ornamentation is used sparingly for accent. The overall effect is lightness and simplicity.

Lyndhurst exemplifies the picturesque qualities of the Gothic style. Notice the asymmetrical composition of towers, gables, and projecting bays.

The Houses of Parliament are the towering achievement of the early Gothic revival. The great structures took several decades to complete. Imposingly set on the river front, the overall symmetry is broken by two enormous towers and a lantern spire. The tower at the right is the famous Big Ben.

This bed is in the nineteenth century Gothic style. The posts are carved with quatrefoils and ogival lancet arches. Flamboyant finials and foliate crockets decorate the headboard.

Profuse ornamentation and idiosyncratic design frequently typify Gothic revival furniture. Here an English octagonal table is inlaid in a technique from the Renaissance with a refined oak-leaf ornament. The arches and lions' heads on the base derive from the French Gothic style.

Designed toward the end of the Gothic revival, this work-table with hanging pinnacles is decorated all over with intarsia. Its tie to the Gothic revival remains apparent in the unusual lectern shape.

This simply designed cabinet is a mixture of Renaissance and Gothic revival styles. It is intricately decorated with long hinges, intarsia, and painted scenes by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other pre-Raphaelite artists.

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