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- A westwork (German: Westwerk), forepart, avant-corps or avancorpo is the monumental, west-facing entrance section ("west front") of a Carolingian, Ottonian...
- example of Carolingian architecture, the oldest surviving example of a westwork, and the oldest standing medieval structure in Westphalia. The original...
- of this, was the tiered entrance to the rest of the now defunct palace, Westwork. Light is brought in by a three tiered system of circular arched windows...
- Carolingian westwork a feature that may proceed western ecclesiastical Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The only surviving Carolingian westwork is at the...
- century, the transept in the second half of the century, and the choir and westwork in the 12th century. The Romanesque church was built during a period in...
- that was added onto gradually in different eras. The imposing Romanesque westwork, with four towers and an additional apse, has been copied repeatedly. The...
- hall church, built after 1275 in light-coloured sandstone. The octagonal westwork and the crypt are survivors of the Ottonian pre-Romanesque building that...
- PRINCEPS CAROLUS CONDIDIT ESSE VELIT". The main entrance is dominated by a westwork comprising the western facade including the entrance vestibule, rooms at...
- Cathedral (westwork) Liège, St Bartholomew's Liège, St Denis, westwork Celles, Saint Hadelin's Nivelles. Westwork abbey church Aldeneik, Westwork Maastricht...
- the westwork, Heinrich Hübsch, an architect of early Historicism, created a Neo Romanesque design which drew on features of the original westwork and...