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1852
 
     
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin        
Charles Barry, photograph by Watkins, c.1859
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1852
 
Place or Object  
The church of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, designed in Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, is completed See in Google maps   
1856
 
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Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland       
Balmoral Castle
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1863
 
     
British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens        
Sculptural group, Albert Memorial
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1897
 
    
English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania       
1944 August
 
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The Allied advance in Italy comes to a halt at the Gothic Line of German defences, north of Florence       
1946
 
    
Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels       
c. 1960s
 
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The remaining part of Whitton Tower or Whitton Castle, a gothic tower built in the grounds of Whitton Park in the 1740s, is demolished. See in Google maps