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Romanesque architecture [1] is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. [2] The style eventually developed into the Gothic style with the shape of the arches providing a simple distinction: the Romanesque is characterized by semicircular arches, while the Gothic is marked by the pointed arches.
Some of the later examples of this Romanesque Revival architecture is seen in Non-conformist or Dissenting churches and chapels. A good example of this is by the Lincoln architects Drury and Mortimer, who designed the Mint Lane Baptist Chapel in Lincoln in a debased Italianate Romanesque revival style in 1870. [11]
This architecture is an adapted and debased form of Italianate Romanesque as seen at the Potter's Bar Old Baptist Church in Hertfordshire in 1859. [28] The Baptist Church in Brown Street Salisbury of the 1880s is similar in bright red brick and was built in the 1880s.
Most domestic buildings of the Romanesque period were built of wood, or partly of wood. In Scandinavian countries, buildings were often entirely of wood, while in other parts of Europe, buildings were "half-timbered", constructed with timber frames, the spaces filled with rubble, wattle and daub, or other materials which were then plastered over. [10]
The yellow-brick interior has broad aisles and a wide nave of five bays of Early English style arches and a debased Romanesque clerestory of two windows above each arch. On the south aisle are a series of red marble tablets set in a carved Portland stone frieze commemorating members of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) who died on active ...
Now converted into the offices of Walters Estate agents. An example of Romanesque revival architecture in a debased Italianate Romanesque revival style in 1870. [13] 1 James Street, Lincoln (1874). Tudoresque with ornate doorway with decorative tiles. Built for Mrs Nicholson, the widow of the architect William Adams Nicholson. [14] [15]
Spanish Romanesque was also influenced by the Spanish pre-Romanesque styles, mainly the Asturian and the Mozarab. But there is also a strong influence from the moorish architecture, so close in space, specially the vaults of Córdoba`s Mosque , and the polylobulated arches.
Now converted into the offices of Walters Estate agents, An example of Romanesque revival architecture in a debased Italianate Romanesque revival style in 1870. [8] North Kyme, St Luke's church. Red brick church built in 1877; South Hykeham Restoration of church. Newark, Nottinghamshire Baptist Church, 1 Albert Street. Lincoln St Catherine's.