Explore: Mediaeval Church Architecture

thick walls. The first and greatest patrons of Romanesque architecture came from the Church, especially monastic traditions such as Cluniacs and the Cistercians

been used to describe the architectural style of the Mediaeval era, preceding the more easily recognizable Gothic architecture, since early in the 19th

Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, and seminaries. It has evolved over the two

of mediaeval architecture turned to technical consideration. London's Palace of Westminster, St Pancras railway station, New York's Trinity Church and

first recorded in 1625. The adjective "medieval" (or sometimes "mediaeval" or "mediæval"), meaning pertaining to the Middle Ages, derives from medium aevum

English Mediaeval Architecture. London: Faber and Faber. Ching, Francis; Jarzombek, Mark; Prakash, Vikram (2006). A Global History of Architecture. Wiley

Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Some of Ireland's main cities were built up and fortified before and during the mediaeval period

formation of lierne vaults and bosses. The late mediaeval period saw an unequalled development in church architecture in England. Walls became thinner; solid

Raevsky-Hughes, (University of California Press, 1993), 264. The Earliest Mediaeval Churches of Kiev, Samuel H. Cross, H. V. Morgilevski and K. J. Conant, Speculum

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