Romanesque Architecture The eleventh century (1000 - 1100 AD) saw peace and prosperity gradually begin to return to Europe after several centuries of war and poverty since the collapse of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century. Encouraged by the Catholic Church, communities began to replace their small wooden chapels with large…
Romanesque Revival: 1820-1860 Richardsonian Romanesque: 1860-1900 Corbel tables and round arches distinguish buildings in the Romanesque Revival or the Round-arched Style, which originates in Germany in the early 19th century. The Romanesque Revival is a less popular alternative to the Gothic Revival that diminishes by the 1860's. During the 1870's, American architect Henry Hobson Richardson…
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Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed into th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular...
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12th century carving, one of several reset in the north porch at Elmley Castle church. St Mary's at Elmley Castle, close to the bottom of Bredon Hill, is one of Worcestershire's more rewarding churches, situated in a delightful churchyard set back in a quiet corner of the village. Much of the present building is 15th century, though parts date from Norman and earlier times, shown by the herringbone masonry in the chancel and the quaint animal carvings in the porch. The building was restored by Ewan Christian in 1863 and Frederick Preedy in 1878, but while these interventions can be detected in certain places the overall sense of antiquity remains. Inside the church the light-level is somewhat subdued, giving it a rather mysterious atmosphere. The first item of note the visitor encounters is the intriguing 14th century font with dragons writhing around its base. However, the church's greatest treasures are the two large monuments in the north transept, both of the highest quality, the superb 17th century Savage monument with three reclining effigies, and the more flamboyant Baroque monument to the Earl of Coventry from c1700, portraying the deceased reclining and flanked by angels. Elmley Castle church is one not to be missed, the tombs alone justify a visit. It was normally open and welcoming in pre-Covid times and hopefully will receive visitors again once this crisis is behind us. Sadly more recently (since my last visit) there was an attack by a mindless vandal (not an isolated incident either) resulting in minor damage to both the major monuments. Hopefully this damage can be put right and the church won't be forced to lock its doors. More details on the Historic Worcestershire Churches Trust site below:- www.worcesteranddudleyhistoricchurches.org.uk/index.php?p...
Detail from the early medieval cloister door of Salamanca cathedral.
Close up of Romanesque capital in the facade of the church of Villanueva de Cangas in Asturias, Spain, Europe
View of a cloister in the monastery. Notice the vaulted ceilings and other romanesque architectural features along the cloister and throughout the monastery. Romanesque, or Nordic, architecture predated gothic architecture by a couple centuries beoming popular around the tenth century. It consisted of thick walls, round arches, groin vaults, towers, and arcading. It has also been described as being symplistic in design.
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Romanesque Design: Beyond Thick Walls. Read here to discover the ingenious use of vaulting & buttressing that revolutionized medieval architecture. Learn how it enabled larger, awe-inspiring spaces.
Malmesbury Abbey remains a glorious fragment of what it once was, the nave and some remains of the crossing and south transept alone surviving of the former monastic church, a building of near cathedral proportions with a central spire that once rivalled Salisbury's. The Reformation brought the destruction of much of this splendour, but luckily the townspeople bought the nave for use as their parish church (the spire remains of the much smaller St John's which they had used previously in the adjoining churchyard, it is now used as the abbey's bell tower to replace it's own lost steeple). The west end of the nave largely collapsed in the 18th century, now leaving the church truncated at both ends, thus some two thirds of the original nave remains in use. The outstanding feature here is of course the Romanesque sculptures in the south porch which have happily survived largely undamaged. The arches of the doorways have rich Norman ornamentation and scrollwork but it is the sculptures of the seated Apostles (6 on each side beneath an angel) that are the most unique survival. Inside the nave the late 14th century vaulting is particularly fine and includes some fine bosses, those nearer the altar having been recoloured.
Decorative art from the Romanesque was focused around decoration of the church -the walls, the ceilings, the floors, the entries, the columns, the capitals, almost every square inch of the church as a form of propaganda for the church itself and its beliefs. Manuscripts were common among tapestry, use of bright color and use of…
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