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Norman architecture

noun

A Romanesque style first appearing in Normandy around 950 AD and used in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the 12th century.

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... excellent fellow, as could be seen from his face of strictly Norman architecture, with blue stained-glass windows rather deep set in—had only one defect: he was not a poet. Not that this would have seemed to him anything but an advantage, had he been aware of it. His was one of those high-principled natures who hold that breadth is synonymous with weakness. ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... whole of the West and the North of Europe, where it continued to predominate until the close of the 12th century; that style, which some authors have, from one of its most striking characteristics, called the round arch style, the same which in England is denominated Saxon and sometimes Norman architecture. ...

— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... indicating Death and Life in the beginnings of mediaeval art, we will take an example of the progress of that art from our northern work. Now, many of you, doubtless, have been interested by the mass, grandeur, and gloom of Norman architecture, as much as by Gothic traceries; and when you hear me say that the root of all good work lies in natural facts, you doubtless think instantly of your round arches, with their rude cushion capitals, ...

— The Two Paths • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Norman architecture" : Romanesque architecture, Romanesque