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| 1741 |
| | John Robartes extends and remodels Radnor House in the gothic style. | |
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| 1750 |
| | Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London | |
| | Strawberry Hill admission ticket Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
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| 1750-97 |
| | Horace Walpole forms a 'Committee of Taste' with friends John Chute and Richard Bentley, and creates his 'little Gothic castle' over the next 50 years, giving rise to the style 'Strawberry Hill Gothic'. | |
| | Walpole and Strawberry Hill, lithograph Richmond Local Studies
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| 1764 |
| | English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto | |
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| 1798 |
| | US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context | |
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| 1818 |
| | Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man | |
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| 1824 |
| | The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber | |
| | Print of the King's School in Kew when newly built
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| 1831 |
| | New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival | |
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| 1836 |
| | Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament | |
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