Queen Anne revival style

Isaac Kremer/ December 1, 2024/

An blank" >target="_blank" >eclectic and glossary/flexible/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="a2780cd97c6b3db30a78b8cd0f484347" target="_blank" >flexible style in England in the late 1860s and 1870s associated with the work of Richard Norman Shaw, William Eden Nesfield, John James Stevenson, and Edward Robert Robson. Fashionable in artistic circles for houses and studios, it was also used for school buildings and known as the architecture of ‘sweetness and light’. With sources in English seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century urban vernacular architecture, the picturesque and revival-2/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="f55c28bdab188184210358c783d0b00c" target="_blank" >gothic revival, it featured red-brick/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="e36769b328e0c816ecb518ba5612874a" target="_blank" >red brick, steeply pitched roofs, shaped and Dutch gables, tall chimneys, asymmetrical compositions, tall sash windows, classical pilasters and mouldings, and aesthetic-movement/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ff3afa545e65506af86d6405c12ea9af" target="_blank" >aesthetic movement motifs such as sunflowers. Craftwork such as gauged and cut brickwork, moulded terracotta, wrought-iron/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="0b6f94855880f75d5a4ef035c7308147" target="_blank" >wrought iron, carved and turned-wood/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="1180bd45ebce5c1e0640f52f74e1bbad" target="_blank" >turned wood and glass/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="395d62cfb4ac4d31fadd056de021e96e" target="_blank" >leaded glass were much in evidence. (Conway, 1994)

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