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Western architecture
From the 19th to the early 20th century
The commissioners responsible for the spending of this money (together with an additional £500,000 voted in 1824) discovered that a Gothic church cost less to build than a Neoclassical one, with its requisite stone portico; this determined the widespread utilization of the Gothic style. The first…
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The commissioners responsible for the spending of this money (together with an additional £500,000 voted in 1824) discovered that a Gothic church cost less to build than a Neoclassical one, with its requisite stone portico; this determined the widespread utilization of the Gothic style. The first…
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