Abstract

The British community established in the Argentine Republic during the course of the nineteenth century privileged the construction of churches and schools as settings that would relate to and preserve its cultural traditions. Buildings were erected in an architectural style then currently in fashion in Great Britain, namely Neo-Gothic, a revivalist movement representative of contemporary British culture and evocative of the homeland’s historic and contemporary architectural landscape. Neo-Gothic, together with the Neo-Tudor movement and the picturesque, defined the character of some of the Argentine localities where British settlement took place.

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