All Topics  
Romanesque Revival architecture

 
Romanesque Revival Architecture

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Romanesque Revival architecture
 
 
  Topics Romanesque Revival architecture Topic Home

Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque
Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which evolved into the Gothic architecture style beginning in the 12th century....
 style
Architectural style

Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of form, wikt:technique, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture....
 of architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
. Popular features of these revival buildings are round arches
Arches

Arches may refer to:* Arch * Arches of the foot* The Arches* Arches National Park* Arches, Cantal, a commune of the Cantal d?partement, in France....
, semi-circular arches on windows, and belt course
Belt course

A belt course is a continuous row or layer of Masonry, tile, brick, shingles, etc. in a wall. The Romanesque architecture style of architecture is notable for the use of belt courses....
s. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, however, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to feature more simplified arches and windows than their historic counterparts.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Romanesque Revival architecture'
Start a new discussion about 'Romanesque Revival architecture'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Rhall
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque
Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which evolved into the Gothic architecture style beginning in the 12th century....
 style
Architectural style

Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of form, wikt:technique, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture....
 of architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
. Popular features of these revival buildings are round arches
Arches

Arches may refer to:* Arch * Arches of the foot* The Arches* Arches National Park* Arches, Cantal, a commune of the Cantal d?partement, in France....
, semi-circular arches on windows, and belt course
Belt course

A belt course is a continuous row or layer of Masonry, tile, brick, shingles, etc. in a wall. The Romanesque architecture style of architecture is notable for the use of belt courses....
s. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, however, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to feature more simplified arches and windows than their historic counterparts. The style was quite popular for courthouse
Courthouse

File:HistoricalMarkerUSGeorgiaMarchToTheSeaStatesboroRight.jpgA courthouse is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities....
s and university campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, especially in the United States; perhaps the best-known of these is the University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
. The style was widely used for churches, and occasionally for synagogues such as the Congregation Emanu-El of New York on Fifth Avenue built in 1929.

Albanycapitolfromeast
Bexar County Court House Perspective
By far the most prominent and influential American architect working in a free "Romanesque" manner is Henry Hobson Richardson
Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent United States architect of the 19th century whose work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Albany, New York and Chicago, among others....
. In the United States the style derived from examples set by him are termed Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque

File:Trinity_Church,_Boston,_Massachusetts_-_front_oblique_view.JPGRichardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston ....
.

A variety of Romanesque revival style known as Rundbogenstil
Rundbogenstil

Rundbogenstil , one of the nineteenth-century historic revival styles of architecture, is a variety of Romanesque revival popular in the German lands and the German diaspora....
 (Round-arched style) was popular in German lands and in the German diaspora.

During the 19th Century the architecture selected for Anglican churches depended on the churchmanship of particular congregations. Whereas high churches and Anglo-Catholic, which were influenced by the Oxford Movement
Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement or Tractarianism was an affiliation of High Church Anglicans, most of whom were members of the University of Oxford, who sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was a direct descendant of the Church established by the Twelve apostles....
, were built in Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
, low churches and broad churches of the period were often built in the Romanesque Revival style.

See also

  • Gothic Revival architecture
    Gothic Revival architecture

    The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
  • Middle Ages in history
    Middle Ages in history

    The Middle Ages in history is an overview of how historiography have both romanticised and disparaged the Middle Ages. After the period came to an end with the Renaissance, subsequent cultural movements such as the Age of Enlightenment and romanticism created images of the Middle Ages that say as much about their own time as actual Medieval...