Gothic house, 31 rue Briçonnet - Tours (France) - Gothic Architecture on Waymarking.com

Depicted beautiful Gothic house, located in rue Briçonnet, is one of many valuable medieval burgher houses in historic centre of Tours (Le Vieux Tours).

This 13th century house is remarkable for its vast Gothic bay windows to allow as much light as possible to enter. Such an audacious architectural solution, which ran counter to the style prevalent at the time, was extremely rare until the Renaissance period in second half ot the 16th century. The house is also interesting thanks to preserved external wooden spiral staircase from the 15th century.

This category is focused only to original Gothic architecture, not to pseudo-Gothic, neo-Gothic or Gothic Revival. You can not find this kind of architecture outside of "Old World", moreover this architecture appeared in ca XIIth century (early Gothic) and the last buildings are from cca XVIth (late Gothic) century...