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Updated: June 23, 2025
In the beer garden, where they used to dine almost every night an imitation medieval saloon, with paneled beams made by machinery, plaster walls imitating oak, and neo-Gothic crystals the proprietor used to exhibit as a great curiosity a jar of grotesque little figures among the porcelain steins that adorned the brackets of the pedestals.
When the late Sir Gilbert Aubyn, the famous neo-Gothic architect, was called in to restore Porthennis Church or, as we say in Cornwall, to "restroy" it he swept the remnants away. But the legend survives, ferro perennius. We sat and talked in the Vicarage garden overlooking Mount's Bay.
Of the following generation, we have the neo-classic architecture which everywhere dominated Europe after the French Revolution and during the First Empire, while of the next generation's reaction against all this in the romantic movement, the neo-Gothic monument of Scott is the most characteristic possible representative.
George's Cathedral, built, they say, at a cost of 10,000l. to 15,000l., which would be reduced to 5,000l. in England contracts in such 'colonies' cost more than stone and slate. The general aspect is that of its Bombay brother, and the order is called, I believe, neo-Gothic, the last insult to ecclesiastical architecture.
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