The 9 Most Beautiful Gothic Revival Buildings Prove Some Design Is Too Good to Stay Gone

By Maya Chawla

The style reemerged nearly 500 years after it first appeared, fueled by nostalgia, Romanticism, and national pride Squint at most beautiful Gothic Revival buildings and you can practically picture a stonemason from the Middle Ages on the premises. Parliament required a Gothic or Elizabethan structure for the new building. Completed around 1870, the Palace of Westminster established Gothic Revival style as part of British national identity.