ROMANESQUE

ARCHITECTURE

Romanesque architecture is an
architectural style of medieval
Europe characterized by semi-
circular arches.
Abbey-Aux-Hommes

Also known as "Sainte Etienne, is French

Romanesque church located in the west side of
Caen, Normandy, located in northwestern
France.
 The church was founded by William,
Duke of Normandy. Remember this is the
ruler who would eventually be known as
"William the Conqueror

Semicircular arches following the roman

period is described as Romanesque,
pointed arches are indicative of gothic
period. Hence, This building is an
example of both.
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Another outcome of gothic period- walls began to be placed at right
angles to the building
 Flying buttresses - become
a feature of structural and aesthetic
design of Gothic church development.
Helps to support the latest construction
of the church, that of the upper
nave,completed in the 12th century.
Earlier wooden roof construction over
the nave was removed in 1115, the
upper section of the nave walls raised
to accommodate sexpartite vaults.
The four-part groin vault, by the way,
“quadripartite" vault, and seemingly
resulted during Roman construction from
the intersection of two barrel vaults. There
are seven radiating chapels branching out
of the apse
The altar, with the apse behind.
 

The stone skeleton is the

structure, pure and simple. The
crossing dome, divided into
eight segments. This is the
intersection of the nave and the
transepts.
 As the nave extent
towards the altar, the
semi-circular pilasters
transforms the piers into
articulated verticals.

The height is
approximately 66 feet
(20m.)
 The columns begin as
round shafts, they do
articulate above their
capitals, and can be
traced up to a
convergence, from which
some do come down on
the opposite side.
  
France is noted for the stained glass
within its churches. Aside from the
aesthetic beauty achieved, and the
spiritual quality of the light
produced within the church, church-
goers were illiterate, and these
windows provided pictorial
representations of biblical themes

MATERIALS– CANE STONE.

STAINED GLASS, WROUGHT
IRON
This is another step in the direction towards articulated
Gothic structural development.
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