Editing Romanesque architecture (section)

==Romanesque Revival==
{{Main|Romanesque Revival architecture}} ''See also'' [[Romanesque Revival architecture in the United Kingdom]]
During the 19th century, when [[Gothic Revival architecture]] was fashionable, buildings were occasionally designed in the Romanesque style. There are a number of Romanesque Revival churches, dating from as early as the 1830s and continuing into the 20th century where the massive and "brutal" quality of the Romanesque style was appreciated and designed in brick.

The [[Natural History Museum, London]], designed by [[Alfred Waterhouse]], 1879, on the other hand, is a Romanesque revival building that makes full use of the decorative potential of Romanesque arcading and architectural sculpture. The Romanesque appearance has been achieved while freely adapting an overall style to suit the function of the building. The columns of the foyer, for example, give an impression of incised geometric design similar to those of Durham Cathedral. However, the sources of the incised patterns are the trunks of palms, cycads and tropical tree ferns. The animal motifs, of which there are many, include rare and exotic species.

The type of modern buildings for which the Romanesque style was most frequently adapted was the warehouse, where a lack of large windows and an appearance of great strength and stability were desirable features. These buildings, generally of brick, frequently have flattened buttresses rising to wide arches at the upper levels after the manner of some Italian Romanesque façades. This style was adapted to suit commercial buildings by opening the spaces between the arches into large windows, the brick walls becoming a shell to a building that was essentially of modern steel-frame construction, the architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] giving his name to the style, [[Richardsonian Romanesque]]. Good examples of the style are [[Marshall Field's Wholesale Store]], Chicago, by H.H. Richardson, 1885, and the Chadwick Lead Works in [[Boston]], United States, by [[William G. Preston|William Preston]], 1887. The style also lent itself to the building of cloth mills, steelworks and powerstations.<ref name=BF/><ref name=NP/>

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File:Natural History Museum London Jan 2006.jpg|[[Natural History Museum, London]], [[Alfred Waterhouse]], 1879
File:Absolute Eglise St Pierre Le jeune 01.JPG|The façade of Catholic church of [[Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church|Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune, Strasbourg]] (built 1888–1893), is of a type adopted for many churches in the early 20th century.<!-- there are two "Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune" churches in Strasbourg-->
File:Speyer---Cathedral---West-View---(Gentry).jpg|The 19th-century reconstruction of the westwerk of the Romanesque [[Speyer Cathedral]]. <small>see above</small>
File:Royce Hall straight.JPG|Royce Hall, at [[UCLA]], inspired by The [[Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio]] in [[Milan]], Italy. <small> see above</small>
File:Old Museum Building, Brisbane in 2019.jpg|[[Old Museum Building, Brisbane|Old Museum Building]], [[Brisbane]], [[George Henry Male Addison]] 1891
File:02216jfManila Cathedral Intramuros Manila Palacio del Gobernador Landmarksfvf 11.jpg|alt=A cathedral in the Romanesque style with a large central portal, a wheel window, and a single, domed bell tower.|[[Manila Cathedral]], [[Intramuros]], [[Manila]], Philippines
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