Ike any other art form, the architecture of the state is a kind of a calling card, by which the inhabitants of other countries can judge the level of its cultural development and the peculiarities of its citizens’ character. England’s architecture is aristocratic and conservative. An eclectic diversity — these two words are the best to formulate the main feature of England’s architecture.Как и любой другой вид искусства, архитектура государства является своего рода визитной карточкой, по которой жители других стран могут судить об уровне его культурного развития, особенностях характера его граждан. Архитектура Англии аристократична и консервативна. Эклектичное многообразие – эти два слова как нельзя лучше формулируют главную особенность архитектуры Англии.Eclecticism or, in other words, historicism, suggests the presence of the main features of the European architecture in the England's architecture of the 15-18th centuries. At the same time, the British eclecticism tends to have its inimitable distinctive traits inherent to different stylistic schools of those times. These styles had been formed and developed sequentially. This continuity can be traced by examining the buildings of the Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian periods.
