Architectural Styles

    Gothic

    Alt names / subperiods 

    Timeline

    Distinguishing Features

    Geographic Presence

    Early English [1170-1260]

    Decorated [1245-1360]

    Perpendicular [1377-1547]

    High Gothic [1180-1230]

    Flamboyant Gothic

    [1350-1550]

     

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    1170-1547

    • Pointed arches
    • complex ribbed vaults
    • “lightweight” apparance
    • flying buttresses
    • large stained glass windows
    • tall & slender
    • emphasizing verticality
    • soaring towers & spires
    • elaborate facades with sculptures
    • gargoyles & carvings
    • decorative stonework (tracery)
    • choir & ambulatory around apse
    • processional events
    • open & airy interiors
    • France
    • England
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Spain

    Common Building Types

    Landmark buildings

    Historic Accommodation Types

    Custom Hotel Examples

    • Cathedrals
    • churches
    • abbeys
    • monasteries
    • castles
    • civic buildings

    Cathedrals

    • Basilica of Saint-Denis (Early)
    • Notre-Dame
    • Chartres (High)
    • St Chapelle (Rayonnant)
    • Cologne
    • Milan
    • Salisbury (Early)
    • Reims (High)
    • St. Vitus
    • Westminster Abbey
    • York Minster (Perpendicular)
    • Rouen (Flamboyant)
    • Gloucester (Perpendicular)
    • Canterbury (Perpendicular)
    • Prague
    • Wells (Early English)
    • Lincoln
    • Amiens (High)

    Palaces

    • Palais de la Cité
    • Medieval Louvre
    • Chateau de Vincennes Paris
    • residences of the French kings
    • Doge’s Palace Venice
    • Palace of the Kings of Navarre
    • Palais des Papes Avignon
    • Inns, Hostels. Hostelries
    • taverns/alehouses (with lodging);
    • Clerical/pilgrim hostels (hospitals/hospices)
    • monastery & convent guesthouses
    • Urban lodging via guilds and merchant networks
    • university college lodgings
    • cathedral precinct accommodation
    • clerical hostels
    • Castles / manorial guest chambers & greast hall sleeping (patronage-based)
    • Roadside shelters and bridge/passage hostels
    • Hospitals for travellers

    Collegiate universities (student/clerical lodging)

    • Merton College (Oxford, England) (founded 1264)
    • New College (Oxford, England) (founded 1379)
    • King’s College (Cambridge, England) (founded 1441)
    • The Sorbonne / University of Paris colleges (Paris, France) (13th c. onward)

    Cathedral close / precinct lodging

    • Canterbury Cathedral (England)
    • York Minster (England)
    • Notre-Dame precinct (Paris, France

    Clerical hostels / hospitals 

    • Hôtel-Dieu (Paris, France) (medieval hospital foundation)
    • St Cross Hospital (Winchester, England) (12th c. foundation

    The Olde Bell Hurley, England (founded in 1135 as a guesthouse for Hurley Priory)

    Landmarks

    Original Accommodation

    Adapted Visitor Accommodation

     

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