The Probert Encyclopaedia of Architecture

GOTHIC

In architecture a the term Gothic refers to something off or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions. The style was prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 and the term Gothic was applied with contempt by the architects of the renaissance period to the earlier Mediaeval architecture which they saw as clumsy and barbarian..
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