ROMANESQUE


Meaning of ROMANESQUE in English

adjective

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■ NOUN

architecture

Further south the Romanesque architecture is traditional but strongly tinged with classical forms from Rome.

building

The Cathedral at Autun was begun in 1120 and considerable parts of the Romanesque building remain.

This was originally a Romanesque building but was gradually turned into a Gothic one in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The buildings in the courtyard are late Baroque, but on your right you will see some remains of the Romanesque building.

cathedral

It was rebuilt on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque cathedral in the early thirteenth century and largely completed by 1237.

Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.

It replaced a Romanesque cathedral on the site and was begun in 1275.

church

It is one of three such Romanesque churches left in Prague.

Over their tiled roofs, gables and chimneys rose the minaret-like towers of a Romanesque church .

A smaller Romanesque church survives at Lébeny, near Györ.

Many other Burgundy Towns and villages are packed with medieval markets, Romanesque churches and Cistercian abbeys.

style

Till virtually the end of the thirteenth century building was on Romanesque style , as at Bamberg and Naumburg Cathedrals.

The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.

Gothic architecture evolved from the Romanesque style but its characteristics are different.

A number of them were largely built in the late Romanesque style and of these some survive in whole or in part.

Here, in modern Normandy and Brittany, Roman remains were scanty and a new Romanesque style evolved.

In general, Romanesque style work continued late and Gothic design was slow to develop.

work

The fine Romanesque work remaining at Bredon is an indication of its importance in the twelfth century.

There is, however, little Romanesque work existing.

These buildings show characteristics different from later Romanesque work .

As in Romanesque work , climate was an important factor.

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A smaller Romanesque church survives at Lébeny, near Györ.

From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica.

Gothic architecture evolved from the Romanesque style but its characteristics are different.

In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century, in the form of castles and churches.

It incorporates three influences: Roman, Byzantine and Romanesque .

The building represents many construction periods from Romanesque to late Gothic.

The church however still retains its original Romanesque basilica form.

The Church of St Havel with its Romanesque foundations was surrounded by the houses of wealthy merchants.

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