romanesque
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Beneath the ornately painted ceiling and romanesque arches that spring from huge marble columns, bodies fill every space on the rows of wooden benches.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017
The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
This great structure, a masterpiece of twelfth-century romanesque and dedicated to Saint Saturninus—the Toulousains have abbreviated—is, I think, alone worth a journey to Toulouse.
From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell
Like the cathedral at Evora, some of the arches in the Templar Church at Thomar are pointed, yet like it again, it is entirely romanesque both in construction and in detail.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
