NOUN
- a style of architecture used in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria; characterized by massive construction and elaborate ornamentation
How To Use Victorian architecture In A Sentence
- See the city's fine Victorian architecture, and visit its excellent museums.
- This excellent record of his thoughtful and troubled career as architect, restorer, scholar, and writer throws much light on a neglected and turbulent period of Victorian architecture.
- Victorian architecture made much use of cast-iron ornament, and great variety is to be found all over the country, from manhole covers to weathervanes, fountains and bridges.
- The architectural historian Harry Goodhart-Rendel lectured in the 30s that "it was well-known that Victorian architecture was either bad or screamingly funny, or both". They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices
- He was known to be interested in Victorian architecture.
- Common elements of both Chinese and Victorian architecture are used to harmoniously blend the new and the old.
