Unsettled by industrialization and the ugliness of the modern world, Victorians looked back to the Gothic style.
A-Level: 19th-century public architecture
Fossiliferous stone, many-colored mosaics, and banded bricks: meaning is in the material in this Victorian church.
William Butterfield, All Saints, Margaret Street, London
Seeing and being seen: the opera was a place of voyeurism and spectacle among the prosperous classes of the city.