English Gothic architecture

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English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The majority of surviving Gothic buildings are cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed arches, rib vaults, buttresses, and extensive use of stained glass. Combined, these features allowed the creation of buildings of unprecedented height and grandeur, filled with light from large stained glass windows. Important examples include Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral. In some conservative contexts, such as Oxbridge colleges, the Gothic style endured in England into the 17th century, much longer than in most of Continental Europe, in the so-called "Gothic Survival". The Gothic style was introduced from France, where the various elements had first been used together within a single building at the choir of the Abbey of Saint-Denis north of Paris, completed in 1144. Other features were imported from the Ile-de-France, where the...

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