Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain is the influential study by George Edmund Street, one of the leading architects of the English Gothic Revival, recording his travels and observations among the medieval cathedrals and churches of Spain. Based on close first-hand examination, it describes the great buildings of Burgos, Toledo, León, and beyond with the trained eye of a practising designer.
Street’s enthusiasm for Spanish Gothic helped introduce English readers to a tradition then little known abroad, and the book influenced both scholarship and contemporary design. He combines measured analysis of structure and detail with vivid impressions of the buildings in their settings. It remains a classic of architectural travel writing and a key document of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Spanish Gothic.