X-Nico

unusual facts about Romanesque style



Church of San Antón

These arches are called round arches and are typical of the Romanesque style; and at the door there is another type of arch that was used at the end of the 15th century.

Girona Cathedral

Its construction was first started in the 11th century in Romanesque style, and later continued in the 13th century in Gothic style.

History of Saxony

This era produced architecturally fine churches of the Romanesque style that are still in existence, as the cathedrals of Goslar, Soest, and Brunswick, the chapel of St. Bartholomew at Paderborn, the collegiate churches at Quedlinburg, Königslutter, Gernrode, etc.

Victorids

The Victorid bishop was Tello (758–763) began the construction of the cathedral, which has an unusual crypt and was renovated in the Romanesque style.


see also

Bíňa

In 1217 the Premontre Abbey monastery was founded in Bény in the romanesque style.

Braga Cathedral

The original 12th century-building was built in the Burgundian Romanesque style of the monastery church of Cluny.

Caen stone

Both abbeys in Caen were built with Caen stone in Norman Romanesque style, and both were unscathed by heavy aerial bombing in July 1944 that destroyed much of the city, as they were being used by the local populace to shelter from the air raids.

Century Association

Although Richardson would later develop a highly personal Romanesque style, his training at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris equipped him to design in neo-Grec with its abstracted classical features that worked well in modern materials such as the brick employed here.

Delevan Baptist Church

It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church.

Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.

Berlenbach Jr. became involved in designing Roman Catholic churches, specializing in the Romanesque style although also created designs influenced by Italian Renaissance later on.

G. H. Mumm

Begun in 1965, the Foujita chapel was entirely designed by Foujita in the romanesque style, who drew the plans and designed the ironwork, stained glass and sculptures.

Girona Cathedral

The church and its cloister were built until 1064, in Romanesque style.

Houston Fire Museum

Designed in the Romanesque style by Olle J. Lorehn, the two-story brick building was completed on January 1899 and features rusticated stone details, a five bay front with Central arched entry flanked by two apparatus bay entries and unique parapet details.

John Forrest Dillon

A memorial fountain to Dillon was erected in downtown Davenport, Iowa in 1918, carved of Indiana limestone in Romanesque style, by sculptor Harry Liva.

Mareuil-Caubert

Built in the Romanesque style in the 12th and 16th century, the church was originally part of a priory under the abbey of Breteuil.

Postel Abbey

The abbey church was built in the Rhineland Romanesque style and dates supposedly from the end of the 12th century (1190).

Seoul Anglican Cathedral English Mission

The Cathedral was built in a Romanesque style with hints of Korean architecture and was designed by a British architect Arthur Dixon.

St Mary's Church, Wilton

In 1845 a new Church of England parish church of St Mary and St Nicholas was built at the instigation of the Countess of Pembroke and her younger son Baron Herbert of Lea, designed by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt and D. Brandon in the Italianate Romanesque style, with considerable Byzantine influences.

Stubbekøbing

Stubbekøbing Church, built in the Romanesque style in the 13th century, has a Renaissance altarpiece and an elaborately carved pulpit as well as a variety of old frescos and wall decorations (1300–1500).

Tunø

Tunø church was most likely built in the 14th century in a Romanesque style, however it has undergone many refurbishments and now stands as a Gothic church with stepped gables or corbie steps.