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Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters.
Carpenter Gothic is an eclectic and naive use of the most superficial and obvious motifs of Gothic decoration. Turrets, spires, and pointed arches were applied, in many instances with abandon, and there was usually no logical relationship of ornamentation to the structure of the house.
7 kwi 2023 · Reimagining aspects of Gothic architecture in wood, Carpenter Gothic style found a natural home in small community churches but was also prominent in many homes across the country.
The Carpenter Gothic style is a distinctive variation of the Gothic Revival style featuring vertical board and batten wooden siding, pointed arches and incised wooden trim. The name comes from the extensive use of decorative wood elements on the exterior.
11 kwi 2016 · Miraculously, the great Gothic cathedral church of St Peter at York escaped the worst transgressions of both the Reformation and the Civil War, and so survived into the Georgian period more completely intact and with fewer major architectural losses or alterations to the original medieval fabric than perhaps any of the other English cathedrals.
25 lis 2011 · Carpenter Gothic, sometimes also Carpenter's Gothic, is the term used for both ecclesiastical and domestic architecture of the 19th century wherein, through the medium of wood, elements of the Gothic Revival style were employed.
title] Carpenter’s Gothic: an architectural style (often “carpenter gothic,” as at 123.36) popular the US and Britain during the Gothic Revival period of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. It has been described as "the most visually playful and lively of all American architectural styles.” (Montgomery, G..
