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The original Romanesque structure dated to 1162, but was remade in the early 18th century.
Norfolk also boasts important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall ( now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880's Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level ); the Norfolk Library ( a Romanesque Revival structure by George Keller, 1888 / 9 ); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S. G. Taylor ( of the New York firm Taylor & Levi ) in the four decades before the Second World War.
The most notable structure in this district is Merchant Tower ( formally Merchants Hotel ) which has Romanesque architecture and is listed individually on the National Register of Historical Places since 1980.
Built in Romanesque Revival style, the bank ’ s structure is said to be influenced by Louisiana native and architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
The growing influx of pilgrims necessitated the construction of ever-bigger churches, which culminated in the huge Romanesque structure that still stands today.
From 1230 to 1245, the initial Romanesque structure was extended westward ; the present-day west wall and Romanesque towers date from this period.
In 1258, however, a great fire destroyed much of the original building, and a larger replacement structure, also Romanesque in style and reusing the two towers, was constructed over the ruins of the old church and consecrated on 23 April 1263.
Of this first building the external Romanesque structure and the Greek cross plan remain.
That heritage can be discerned in language, incorporating shards of the Roman past, in architecture, in the emerging Romanesque ( Norman ) architecture, and in a new feudal structure erected as a bulwark against the chaos that overtook the Continent following the collapse of Roman authority and the subsequent Dark Ages.
St. Ann's Church, a rusticated-stone structure with a Romanesque tower on East 12th Street that dated to 1847, was sold to NYU to make way for a 26-story, 700 bed dormitory.
The Church of Locmaria, a Romanesque structure, dates from the eleventh century.
It is a structure in the Spanish Romanesque architectural style, built of Connecticut granite.
In Toulouse, the earliest church dedicated to Notre-Dame du Taur (" Our Lady of the Bull ") still exists, though rebuilt ; though the 11th century Basilica of Saint Sernin, the largest surviving Romanesque structure in France, has superseded it, the church is said to be built where the bull stopped, but more credibly must in fact be on a site previously dedicated to a pre-Christian sacred bull, perhaps the bull of Mithras.
While in England studying archaeology, Sanborn endeavored to create a structure out of stone to gain a better insight on Romanesque sculptures.
Although many structures exist in the Romanesque style and some borrow so heavily that they are often mistaken for Richardson designs, several buildings have been built specifically to mimic a single Richardson structure.
Completed in 1804, the Romanesque structure became the plaza's market and the lot to the west of the colonnade became the Plaza de la Victoria.
The Romanesque and Gothic Revival structure was the world ’ s largest electrical power station at the time and later became a trolley barn.
It has Romanesque foundations, but the actual structure is Gothic with an interesting apse, extensive Gothic frescoes from the 15th and early 16th century on the interior walls, a renovated wooden ceiling, and two gilded Baroque altars.
Built in 1892, the Romanesque Revival red brick structure is included on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Romanesque Revival structure, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, opened on May 8, 1885.
By the 1860s the name of Saints Peter and Paul had been adopted, and in 1889 the original wooden church was replaced by a large, brick and stone Romanesque Revival structure, which remains in use today.
The building is L-shaped in plan and is specifically tailored to house and display the diverse collection, with larger pieces such as Romanesque doorways built into the structure, at the same time giving views out into the park over formal grassed areas to the south, and into adjacent woodland to the north.

Romanesque and with
Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.
Some of the late Lombard structures of the 9th and 10th century have been found to contain elements of style associated with Romanesque architecture and have been so dubbed " first Romanesque ".
These edifices are considered, along with some similar buildings in southern France and Catalonia, to mark a transitory phase between the Pre-Romanesque and full-fledged Romanesque.
The figures ’ robes display a Byzantine conservatism, with their modeled three-dimensionality and allusion to a Classical style, yet the iconic hand gestures are reminiscent of a Romanesque energy and theatricality.
Down the narrow, short street that extends from the main gate of the fortress is the Chiesa di Sant ' Agostino with its simple Romanesque façade, also built in the 13th century.
The original edifice, in Romanesque style, had a nave and two aisles with a semicircular apse.
Some places in town with Romanesque architecture are part of the holiday route Romanesque Road, such as St Servatius ' church at the castles hill, St Wigbert's church down the valley and St Maries church on the Montsion's hill (' Muenzenberg ').
Most buildings are in the Romanesque style, although some dormitories, engineering buildings, and physical sciences labs are of various Modernist styles ( especially two large Brutalist dormitories at the campus ' northern edge ) that sharply contrast with the predominantly red-brick campus.
The niello designs include inscriptions written in late Romanesque majuscule ( with some uncial additions ), Christian symbols, and floral patterns.
The result is that the Cathedral reflects a hodgepodge of architectural styles, with a Gothic nave, a Romanesque crossing under the dome ; chapels in French, English and Spanish Gothic styles, as well as Norman and Byzantine ; Gothic choir stalls, and Roman arches and columns separating the high altar and ambulatory.
An important example of Apulian Romanesque architecture, the church has a simple Romanesque façade with three portals ; in the upper part is a rose window decorated with monstruous and fantasy figures.
* San Francesco d ' Assisi, a late Romanesque church ( 1238 – 98 ) with a restored Gothic façade, located on Corso Cairoli.
It was built by Tommaso di Andrea Pisano, who succeeded in harmonizing the Gothic elements of the bell-chamber with the Romanesque style of the tower.
* The Church of St. James, also called Schottenkirche, a Romanesque basilica of the 12th century, derives its name from the monastery of Irish Benedictines ( Scoti ) to which it was attached ; the principal doorway is covered with very singular grotesque carvings.
* Examples of the Romanesque basilica style are the church of Obermünster, dating from 1010, and the abbey church of St. Emmeram, built in the 13th century, remarkable as one of the few German churches with a detached bell tower.
In the Romanesque art, lust is often represented by a siren or a naked woman with breast bitten by snakes.
There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century.
Romanesque architecture, or Norman architecture as it is generally termed in England because of its association with the Norman invasion, had already established the basic architectural forms and units that were to remain in slow evolution throughout the Medieval period.
The widespread introduction of a single feature, the pointed arch, was to bring about the stylistic change that separates Gothic from Romanesque, and broke the tradition of massive masonry and solid walls penetrated by small openings, replacing it with a style where light appears to triumph over substance.

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