For admirers of the gothic revival, Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's extraordinary prophetic vision, has completed the first phase of its restoration. Here
Without it, the world would now look very different - no Pugin perhaps, no Cambridge Camden Society.
After my last post, perhaps I should say "Strawberry Hill for ever"
It's a curious fact that in Britain the Gothic never quite died out, and that survival and revival mingle together.
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