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Article: Gothic revival: later this month, the scaffolding comes down from the new crossing tower of Bury St Edmunds cathedral. It triumphantly proves that gothic architecture is alive.(Architecture)
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Obituaries are sometimes written too soon. Seventy years ago, the architect and critic Harry Goodhart-Rendel dated the death of the gothic revival--that vital national artistic movement he admired and understood so well--to the years in which the great central tower of Giles Scott's Liverpool Cathedral was beginning to rise. He was (for once) wrong, just as he was mistaken in stating that 'any hope for its future must be based upon its possible reappearance in a form so changed to suit changed methods of construction'. Proof of that is the completion of another gothic cathedral tower, one that is rather smaller and less original than Scott's in Liverpool but which is ...
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