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    REFORMED GOTHIC

    May 07, 2019 2 minutes
    By Brian D. Coleman

    othic Revival isn’t the easiest style to live with. The great neo-Gothicist Pugin himself humorously argued against the dangers of overdoing points and pinnacles in his : “Everything is crocketed with angular projections, innumerable mitres, sharp ornaments, and turreted extremities. A man who spends any length of time in… [such a room], and escapes being wounded by some of its minutiae, may consider

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