Architectural Styles
Romanesque
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
10th-13th C
- Transition from Roman to Gothic
- solid/sturdy forms
- rounded arches
- thick fortress-like stone walls
- barrel & groin vaults
- small/narrow windows
- round or slit windows
- intricate stone carvings around doorways & capitals,
- sculptural friezes,
- bell towers,
- campaniles with pyramidal or conical roof,
- pilasters,
- churches in basilica plan with transepts,
- semi-circular eastern apse with altar,
- polychrome stone
- Western
- Southern
- Eastern Europe
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Baslicas
- Churches
- Cathedrals
- Monasteries
- Abbey Church of Saint-Savin
- Saint-Étienne Cathedral Caen
- St. Sernin Basilica Toulouse
- Durham Cathedral England
- Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy Conques
- Basilica of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe,
- Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
- St. Michael’s Church Hildesheim
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Cluny Abbey,
- St. Lazare Cathedral Autun
- Eglise Saint-Pierre Moissac
- Monastery and abbey guesthouses (hospitium)
- Cathedral / bishop’s hospitality
- Pilgrim hospitals / hospices
- Commercial inns / hostelries
- Taverns / alehouses with lodging
- Castle / manorial hospitality
- Roadside shelters / bridge and pass lodges
- Private hospitality networks
- Hospital of St Cross (Winchester, England) founded c. 1132
- Hospice of the Great St Bernard Pass (Alps)
- Cluny Abbey (Burgundy, France)
- Abbey of Vézelay (Basilica of Sainte-Madeleine precinct) (France)
- Abbey of Moissac (France)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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