3/4 People's Palaces: The Gothic Revival

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People's Palaces: The Golden Age of Civic Architecture :
Episode 2/2 The Gothic Revival.
First broadcast: 13 Sep 2010.
Architectural historian Dr Jonathan Foyle visits some of the best neo-gothic Victorian civic buildings in the north of England. Pointed arches, spires and clustered columns proliferate on churches and cathedrals, town halls and libraries, as gothic moves from the sacred to the secular through the 19th century and becomes the north's civic style of choice.

[@rubensrides]

Wow that choice! All of the entries for that town hall are great. The selection of designs in similar competition today are usually 'crap', 'crap', 'crap' and 'slightly less crap (but still crap)'. In this documentary, you occasionally see the result right next door to the magnificent buildings they're highlighting.

[@danielgardecki1046]

4:00 Correction - *"There's one shade of BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE sandstone"* which is one of a few reasons why *Manchester Town Hall* and *Bradford City Hall* look almost identical, as they used the same *Bolton Woods/Elland Flags/Gaisby Rock/Spinkwell Stone* sandstone from *Bolton Woods/Spinkwell/Cliffe Woods Quarries* in *Bolton Woods, Bradford, West Yorkshire.*

[@musicfan6575]

Truly remarkable!

[@robertbaird210]

Love to get the music credit at 9:30 of this video..as he walks into the corridors of Manchester town hall.

[@multipoopshit2]

If you're still curious, I believe it's 'Perfume - distilled', from the soundtrack for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.