Style
Romanesque
Massive and solid: thick walls, round arches, small deep-set windows, heavy piers, barrel and groin vaults, square towers.
- When
- c. 1000 to 1200
- Where
- Western Europe
- Tell it apart
- Romanesque Revival uses the same shapes in the 1800s and later, usually with crisp machine-cut stone or brick and modern windows. In the Americas a Romanesque-looking stone building is a revival; round arches alone do not prove it, because colonial Renaissance and Baroque churches use them too.
The tells
- Round arches on doors, windows and arcades
- Thick walls with small, deep-set windows
- Heavy piers or drum columns with cube or carved capitals
- A round-arched portal with a carved tympanum
- Rows of small corbels under the eaves