Revivalism and Architecture

Peter N. Lindfield is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has written extensively on the Gothic Revival, heraldry, forgery, and material culture, including the following monographs: Georgian Gothic (2016); Unbuilt Strawberry Hill (2022); and The Intimacies of George Shaw (2025). Additionally, Peter edited or co‑edited volumes including Writing Britain’s Ruins (2017); The Display of Arms (2019); Politics and the English Country House (2023); and The Marriage Bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York (2023).Dan Talkes is Lecturer in Design and Construction at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. A recipient of the Welsh Gold Medal for Architecture, and an Accredited Conservation Architect (AABC), he is both an educator and practitioner, with a specialism in new architecture in historic contexts. Accordingly, questions of style appropriation and appropriateness infuse and inform both his practice and research, most particularly in his long‑standing role as Heritage Consultant, Conservation Architect and Design Advisor to the medieval and neo‑medieval St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol.

• Historia Rediviva: Architectural Afterlives Introduction to The Essays SECTION 1: Coded, Surprising Revivals 1.1 Contemporary Revivalism 1.2. Guises of the Picturesque: Revivifying the British Surface SECTION 2: Challenging Revivalism and Ancient History 2.1. Prototype of Earnest Revivalism: Old Somerset House, London, and the Establishment, or Notion, of a National Style 2.2. Sandown Castle’s Revivalism Hidden in Plain Sight: A Tale of Spolia SECTION 3: Us and ‘The Other’ 3.1. Mapping Revivals, Defining Style: The Alhambresque in The Long Nineteenth Century 3.2. Fiske Kimball and the Politics of the Colonial Revival SECTION 4: Gothics 4.1. James Wyatt’s Westminster: A Turning Point in the Gothic Revival? 4.2. Replication vs Evolution: The ‘Tudor Revival’ Buildings of Blunden Shadbolt and Ernest Trobridge SECTION 5: Decorative Arts 5.1. The Medievalisms of Victorian Stained Glass 5.2. Graphic Imagination: Reviving the ‘Ripon School’ Style