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20 unusual facts about romanesque architecture


Church of Saint Mary of Eunate

The Church of Saint Mary of Eunate is a 12th-century Romanesque church located about 2 km south-east of Muruzábal, Navarre, Spain, on the Way of Saint James.

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

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

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

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Manzano

The base of the tower of the church is Romanesque, but in the eighteenth century it was renovated when, in 1746 the tower was added to the belfry.

John A. Hasecoster

Hasecoster designed buildings in many European and American styles, including Second Empire, Romanesque, Gothic revival, and Craftsman.

La Seu Vella, Lleida

The cathedral is designed in a transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic.

In 1193, however, the Lleida cathedral chapter ordered the construction of a new edifice, following the contemporary Romanesque architectural canons, to master Pere de Coma.

Leopoldsberg

The Romanesque-Gothic basilica as well as the copper dome with the imperial crown can be seen.

Lluís Domènech i Montaner

In this way Domènech collected material for his work on Romanesque architecture, and he provided the School of Architecture with an important photographic archive.

New Kent Road

The 1888 red brick church behind Tavern Court is the former Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, a listed building designed by Charles Evans-Vaughan in mixed Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles.

Numantia

This industrial estate has been planned for El Cabezo, which is adjacent to Numantia and the Roman encampment (and would also affect part of the Romanesque site of Los Arcos de San Juan de Duero).

Opus emplectum

The good example of this technique are ruins of the romanesque tower in Strzelno.

Romanesque

Romanesque architecture, architecture of Europe which emerged in the late 10th century and lasted to the 13th century

Romanesque architecture

The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela shares many features with Ely, but is typically Spanish in its expansive appearance.

Other notable Romanesque baptisteries are that at Parma Cathedral remarkable for its galleried exterior, and the polychrome Baptistery of San Giovanni of Florence Cathedral, with vault mosaics of the 13th century including Christ in Majesty, possibly the work of the almost legendary Coppo di Marcovaldo.

Seehausen, Leipzig

The first church was built in the 13th century, in the romanesque Choir tower.

Sherzer Hall

Sherzer Hall has a red-brick exteriors Sherzer's exterior has a few mildly Romanesque and Georgian elements.

Valdemar Koch

His work demonstrates a thorough knowledge of architectural archaeology and history with Romanesque architecture as his main source of inspiration.

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.


Bowden Hill

The architect was S.B. Gabriel of Bristol who designed the nave and chancel in the Early English Gothic style but gave the northeast tower Norman details and a German Romanesque roof.

Braga Cathedral

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

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.

Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers

The whole of the building was rebuilt in the second half of the 11th century, in the period of High Romanesque, and inaugurated in 1086 by the future Pope Urban II.

Eutropius of Saintes

Gregory of Tours mentions the tradition of Eutropius’ martyrdom in his work, but also notes that before Bishop Palladius of Saintes translated Eutropius’ relics around 590 to the Romanesque church of St. Eutropius in Saintes, no one really knew the legend of Eutropius.

Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly

Vinland, a Romanesque "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island built in 1882 for tobacco heiress Catharine Lorillard Wolfe by Peabody & Stearns, purchased by the Twomblys in 1896 and greatly enlarged.

Glashütten bei Schlaining

The present Romanesque church — dedicated to Saint Louis of Toulouse, whose cult had been much promoted in mediæval Europe by King Charles I of Hungary (1307–1342) — was built in 1816; it was sheathed in asbestos in 1906.

Honcourt Abbey

In its circular form, a great rarity, the abbey church strongly resembled the church of Ottmarsheim near Kembs, an outstanding example of primitive Romanesque architecture and a faithful replica, only smaller, of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen.

Hunseby

Dating at least from the middle of the 12th century, Hunseby Church has a Romanesque chancel and nave and a Gothic tower.

Jumièges

It is best known as the site of Jumièges Abbey, a typical Norman abbey of the Romanesque period, and the home of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070.

Krautwiller

A Romanesque doorway (today walled up) was originally the entrance to this ancient chapel dedicated to Saint Ulrich.

La Serranía

Also of note is the Bonaval Monastery, in the Jarama valley, near Retiendas, dating originally to 1162 and mixing Romanesque with Gothic.

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.

Morović

The old Catholic church from the 13th century, built in both romanesque and gothic styles is a very noteworthy monument.

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Saenredam's paintings frequently show medieval churches, usually Gothic, but sometimes late Romanesque, which had been stripped bare of their original decorations after the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation.

Postel Abbey

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

Rookery Building

As the master artisan, Root drew upon a variety of influences in designing the interior and exterior spaces, including Moorish, Byzantine, Venetian and Romanesque motifs.

St Boniface Church Germiston

The church, which is of a stone structure throughout, has typical Norman or Romanesque features, as found in many of Baker's buildings, including some of the most beautiful stained glass windows of the early 20th century.

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).

Sussat

The romanesque church of Saint Bonnet was, in the Middle Ages, under the patronage of the powerful Benedictine abbey of Menat.

Toledo Harbor Light

Described as Romanesque, its style is unique among Great Lakes lighthouses.

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.

Vall de Boí

The valley also contains the ruins of a number of other Romanesque religious buildings, including the churches of Sant Llorenç in Saraís and Santa Martí in Taüll, and the hermitages of Sant Cristòfol in Erill, of Sant Quirc in Taüll, of Sant Salvador in Barruera and of Sant Pere in Boí.