Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival was one of the principle forces in shaping the face of Melbourne and architecture in Australia in the late nineteenth century. Pugin was the father of the style and he had an heavy influence in the architectural movement in the Victorian England. The style was influenced by his experience as child with the medevial Gothic style. His later religious conversion to Catholicism was the driving force behind the revival of the ecclesiastical features in his work. Pugin argues that Gothic architecture is not a style but a principle. 

The most commonly identifiable feature of the Gothic Revival style is the pointed arch, used for windows, doors, and decorative elements like porches, dormers, or roof gables. Other characteristic details include steeply pitched roofs and front facing gables with delicate wooden trim called vergeboards or bargeboards.