🇬🇧 Victorian Gothic Revival Masterpiece

📍 All Saints Margaret Street, Fitzrovia, London 🏆 Grade I Listed Building (A jewel of Victorian architecture!) 🔥 Why It's Special ✔️ Designed by William Butterfield (1850-1859) ✔️ Flagship of the Oxford Movement—reviving traditional worship + high-quality church design. ✔️ "High Victorian Gothic" icon—a modern twist on medieval style! 🏛️ Architectural Marvels 🧱 Exterior: Bold red brick + polychromatic patterns (no stone—revolutionary for its time!). 🎨 Interior: Dazzling mosaics, intricate tilework & gilded altars. Stained-glass windows 🌈 depicting biblical tales (19th-century craftsmanship at its peak!). Dramatic high altar with a painted reredos (a visual feast!). 🌟 Hidden Genius Squeezed between buildings, yet a milestone in Gothic Revival—proving small sites can be grand! "Rational" Gothic: Butterfield used brick, colored cement & ceramics to modernize tradition. 🎶 Living Legacy Still an active Anglican church with sublime choral music. Free to visit—step into a *19th-century art manifesto*! #GothicRevival #LondonArchitecture #HiddenGem #ArtHistory #VictorianEra