Byzantine Revival Architecture - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Westminster Cathedral (1895-1903), the Catholic cathedral in London, is the largest and most thorough British effort in the style, by John Francis Bentley (1839 – 1902), but there are a number of other churches and other buildings such as Christ Church, North Brixton by Beresford Pite, 1897-1903, near the Oval Cricket Ground. From about 1850 to 1880 in Bristol a related style known as Bristol Byzantine was popular for industrial buildings which combined elements of the Byzantine style with Moorish architecture.

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