Carpenter Gothic - Outside North America

Outside North America

Many nineteenth-century timber Gothic Revival structures were built in Australia, and in New Zealand - such as Frederick Thatcher's Old St. Paul's, Wellington, and Benjamin Mountfort's St Mary's, but the term "Carpenter's Gothic" is not often used, and many of their architects also built in stone.

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