Architectural Styles
Victorian Gothic
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
Colonial Gothic revival
Victorian Academic Gothic
Victorian Free Gothic
1840-1900
- Pointed arches
- Elaborate stone or wooden tracery in windows
- steep gabled roofs
- elaborate mouldings
- carved stonework
- decorative elements
- gargoyles
- decorative brackets
- towers, spires
- Australia
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Churches
- civic buildings
- wealthy residences
- villas
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral Melbourne
- St. Mary’s Cathedral Sydney,
- St. John’s Cathedral Brisbane
- Adelaide Cathedral
- St. Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney
- St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne
- St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide
- University of Sydney (main quadrangle)
- Anderson Stuart Building (University of Sydney)
- Old Pathology Building Melbourne University
- St Peter’s Cathedral, Armidale
- St John’s College, Sydney
- Former Metropolitan Gas Company Buildings
- Flinders Street, Melbourne
- Ormond College University of Melbourne
- Former Stock Exchange Melbourne
- Former Safe Deposit Building, Melbourne
- Old Rialto Building Melbourne
- Olderfleet Buildings Melbourne;
- St George’s Presbyterian Church, St Kilda East;
- The Great Synagogue Sydney
- St Vincent’s College, Potts Point
- St Patrick’s Seminary, Manly
- Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church, Annandale
- St Paul’s Presbyterian Church; Armidale
- Former Sussex Street Public School, Sydney
- Nightingale Wing, Sydney Hospital
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown
- Government House, Sydney
- Convents adapted to accommodation
- Schools & colleges adapted to accommodation
- Institutional hostels & dormitory accommodation
- Town inns with Gothic detailing
- Urban Gothic commercial buildings later reused as hotels
- Retreats and spiritual lodging
Adaptive reuse
- St Paul’s Convent Broken Hill
- Old Convent Kyneton Victoria
- St Joseph’s Guesthouse Port Fairy Vict
- Old School Hotel Broken Hill (former educational complex)
- The George Sydney – Former YMCA building (Gothic/Romanesque institutional tradition)
- Gothic Hotel Melbourne
- The Old Clare Hotel Sydney – Gothic Revival industrial/commercial complex
- Convent Gallery Daylesford Vict
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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