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I absolutely love a good bit of Victorian Gothic.
The houses of parliament aren't that nice, really, but I love St Pancras. I was so pleased when they finally spruced it up.
Pugin certainly viewed classical architecture as pagan and bad, and gothic as Christian and good, but Gilbert-Scott didn't really care*, and was an absolute master in both styles, as his neo-classical Foreign Office bulding shows. Good architecture is good architecture, whatever the style.
*though he was a fan and avocated its use in secular buildings.
His grandson was quite the modernist, and gave us those lovely red phone boxes