What is there to believe in? All I see is decay. ibid.
The truth is I’ve done monstrous things … There will be a price. ibid.
I want to be good. ibid.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I’ve always been interested in visionaries. Peter Ackroyd
The Gothic conveyed the glory of God through light, intricate decoration that reached up to heaven itself. Carved With Love: The Genius of British Woodwork III: The Divine Craft of Carpentry, BBC 2013
It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition. Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
Ghosts are real ... The first time I saw one I was ten years old. It was my mother’s. Black Cholera had taken her. Crimson Peak 2015 starring Mia Wasikowska & Jessica Chastain & Tom Hiddleston & Charlie Hunnam & Jim Beaver & Burn Gorman & Doug Jones et al, director Guillermo del Toro, opening commentary
In a golden age of civic architecture the North created buildings that expressed the fashions and the philosophy of the day. But behind the grand facades there are human stories: personal conflicts, private passions, lives and loves set in stone. These civic buildings were bankrolled by proceeds from the Industrial Revolution which turned modest market towns into vast modern cities. Jonathan Foyle, People’s Palaces: The Golden Age of Civic Architecture II: The Gothic Revival, BBC 2010
A pointed arch – that’s the central motif of Gothic style; the rest is just variations on its theme. ibid.
The vogue for medievalism combined with concern about the architectural health of the nation would see Gothic move beyond ecclesiastical architecture to become a suitable style for the North’s great civic structures too. ibid.
Manchester: They opted for a fashionable Gothic design by local architect Alfred Waterhouse … designed to suit a committee and Waterhouse made some compromises which Ruskin may not entirely have agreed with. ibid.
Gothic fantasy, medieval romance, temples of astrology, oriental exotica, fairytale castles, all made real. Their creator was one of the most extraordinary man of the Victorian age, a blue-blooded aristocrat who supported women’s rights, striking miners, an intellectual who was a ghost hunter and a welsh-speaking Scottish nationalist. Bute: The Scot Who Spent a Welsh Fortune I, BBC 2021
It was in the Celtic cousins of Wales and Scotland where Bute made his dreams come true. ibid.
The secret of the Bute family’s immense wealth lay in the alchemy of turning Welsh coal into gold. ibid.
When he was 18 he met the eccentric architect William Burgess. The two shared a passion for medieval art and design. ibid.
The Clock Tower of Big Ben ... It’s not out of place in the twenty-first century. Richard Taylor, Pugin: God’s Own Architect, BBC 2012
Pugin: he wanted to change the nation through architecture. The Gothic revival he inspired transformed our landscape. ibid.
Contrasts [anti-Georgian] was hugely controversial but it was also a best seller putting the name of the twenty-four-year-old Pugin on people’s lips. ibid.
When he was just six years old his parents took him to a building that would inspire so much of his later work – Lincoln Cathedral, one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the whole country. ibid.
Pugin’s second great book: The True Principles of Pointed Architecture. ibid.
Palace of Westminster ... The Gothic details – veins that catch the light, carved stonework, and the spires are undoubtedly Pugin’s touches. And Pugin was to have an even greater influence on the interior design. ibid.
While Barry received nearly £25,000 for his work, Pugin was paid a paltry £800. ibid.
Salisbury cathedral: built in 1220, its most striking feature the spire at 404 feet is the tallest of any church in Britain. Nearly 800 years old, the cathedral looks much as it did when first constructed. The world’s finest example of early English Gothic architecture. Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson III: Salisbury