Gothic architecture first emerged in mid-12th-century Paris with churches like the Basilica ... widespread in the early 19th century, applying medieval forms and features to a more modern setting.

By the early 1800s though, scholarship on medieval Gothic was growing, and a more archaeological ... with many public buildings following suit and there is an ambitious programme of church building, ...

is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. The site - which also comprises the small medieval Church of Saint Margaret, built in Perpendicular Gothic style, and Westminster Abbey, where all the ...