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Neoclassicism did not last one long. It was replaced by numerous imitations of historical styles that followed one another quickly: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, all in the diverse varieties. The literary romanticism of the time evokes the spirit of the average age, and at the same time that discovered the past medieval in the old cities, woke up the interest by the gothic architecture, presenting/displaying it like own style in contrast to the enthusiasm by the Greco-roman antiquity. Medieval buildings were finished whose construction had been interrupted, like, for example in Germany the cathedrals of Colony and Ulm. The restoration lived a period on intense activity, and not only churches rose in gothic style, but also civil buildings, among them iron stations. The medievalism of the romantic time did not constitute single a reaction against the rigidness of the coldness of the Classical Art. One of the deepest meanings is the one of the protest of the towns of the North, in special, England and Germany, against the dominion of the Mediterranean art. As much in England as in Germany, the Nordic particulars had never grown totally to the suggestion of the meridional. In tactical mission of England, in spite of the centuries of Renaissance and of the remarkable influence of the work of Palladium, certain forms of the gothic architecture maintained an exceptional survival. Thus, for example, in the heat of century XVIII, Horace Walpole raised in gothic style its residence of Strawberry Hill, at the end of the same century James Wyatt constructed, also the gothic one, the castle of Fronthill Abbey. Wyatt was also dedicated to the medieval monument restoration, like the castle of Windsor. Charles Barry is, perhaps, the important figure but of all the neogothic architecture. With him he collaborated, in the project for the palace of the British Parliament of Westminster, Augustus Pugin, son of a French decorator who had projected the gothic furniture of Windsor.