Editing Romanesque architecture (section)

==Scope==
Buildings of every type were constructed in the Romanesque style, with evidence remaining of simple domestic buildings, elegant town houses, grand palaces, commercial premises, civic buildings, castles, city walls, bridges, village churches, abbey churches, abbey complexes and large cathedrals.<ref name=Romanesque>Rolf Toman, ''Romanesque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting''</ref> Of these types of buildings, domestic and commercial buildings are the most rare, with only a handful of survivors in the United Kingdom, several clusters in France, isolated buildings across Europe and by far the largest number, often unidentified and altered over the centuries, in Italy. Many castles exist, the foundations of which date from the Romanesque period. Most have been substantially altered, and many are in ruins.

By far the greatest number of surviving Romanesque buildings are churches. These range from tiny [[chapel]]s to large [[cathedral]]s. Although many have been extended and altered in different styles, a large number remain either substantially intact or sympathetically restored, demonstrating the form, character and decoration of Romanesque church architecture.<ref name=Romanesque/>

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File:Cieszyn 9891 crop.JPG|Saint Nicholas Rotunda in [[Cieszyn]], Poland
File:Poreč064.jpg|alt=A small three-storey stone house with an exterior stone staircase to the first floor, and a wooden balcony around the upper floor|Romanesque house in [[Poreč]], Croatia
File:Palazzo Comunale Massa Marittima crop.JPG|alt=An imposing four-storey stone building with battlements and rows of paired windows, facing onto a town square.|The Civic Hall in [[Massa Marittima]], Italy
File:Lebeny-churche1.jpg|alt=The façade of a tall grey church with paired towers and a single ornately carved doorway|Abbey Church of St James, [[Lébény]], Hungary (1208)
File:Conisbrough Castle keep - geograph.org.uk - 922015 crop.JPG|alt=A circular castle tower with enormous jutting buttresses. There are few windows and entrance is on an upper floor, is reached by a modern staircase.|The keep of [[Conisbrough Castle]], England
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