Romanesque Architecture

Compounds piers

engaged arches attached to each other.

Gallery or Tribune

An upper story over the aisle which opens onto the nave or choir.

Stone

helps acoustics with more prevalent music coming into church services.

Transverse arch

Supporting arch which runs across the vault from side to side, dividing the bays.

Diaphragm Arches

incase one section catches on fire, it slows the spread.

Romanesque

Roman Like

transverse arch

Supporting arch which runs across the vault from side to side, dividing the bays

ribbed vaulting

mainly mortered bricks, intersection of 2 or 3 vaults

Church of St. Sernin, Toulouse, 1070-1120

Speyer Cathedral, ca 1030, revaulted 1082-1106

Pisa Cathedral, begun 1063

Campanile (Leaning Tower of Pisa) , begun 1174

San Minatio al Monte, Florence, 1062-1090

Saint Ambrogio, Milan, ca. 1100

St. Etienne, Caen (Con), ca. 1067, vaulted early 12th cent.

Durham Cathedral, 1093-1130