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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830272" data-attributes="member: 53455">Romanesque, but... not a church ! (2021)It is widely believed that Romanesque architecture is only to be found in churches, but that is not true. It is an architectural style that will also be found on “civilian” buildings like castles, even though the examples are few and far between as castles were first and foremost about defensive functionality and solidity, and not about slender arches or soaring vaults or decorative sculpture.Other than castles, not many things in the Middle Ages were built sturdily enough that they would have reached us. Among those other buildings is a “hospital” (for want of a better word) that was built on the periphery of the small town of Pons in the French province of Saintonge (that’s in the western part of the country, not too far from the Atlantic coast), which was fortified during the Middle Ages and a prosperous place, as it was located on one of the major Paths to Compostela.I say “on the periphery” as this hospital, meant to to receive pilgrims both ill and in good health but in need of a safe place to stay for a night or two, was indeed built outside the town walls to lessen the risk of contagion... It was completed in 1160 and this was its main entrance, directly on the street. The rib vaulting you see rising above is, of course, Gothic.Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-sshift lens, manual focus, FTZ adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]416437[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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