Carpenter's Gothic(k)

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Carpenter's Gothic(k).
1. Whimsical, unscholarly Gothick derived from pattern-books of e.g. Batty Langley.

2. C19 timber buildings in the USA with Gothicizing tendencies, e.g. in their barge-boards.

Bibliography

McArdle & and Bartlett (1978)

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