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1. Architectural style that drew its inspiration from medieval architecture and competed with the Neoclassical revivals in the United States and Great Britain.
   "In England, the centre of the Gothic revival movement, Gothic revival was intertwined with deeply philosophical movements associated with a re-awakening of High Church or Anglo-Catholic belief (and by the Catholic convert Augustus Welby Pugin) concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism.";
   - Gothic revival architecture, neo-Gothic, neo-Gothic architecture

Type of: architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture

Encyclopedia: Gothic revival