Use of construction components taken from an older building.

Reclining statue representing the deceased, decorating a tomb.

Small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.

Communal dining hall; A dining room in a monastery.

The dining hall of a monastery.

A supportive arch constructed within a wall to absorb weight upon a passageway or portal below.

Style of the era following that of the gothic period (16th century).

A framework of diagonal arched ribs carrying the cells which cover in the spaces between them.

Row of quoins forming an arch.

First applied by critics in the early nineteenth century to describe the architecture of the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries, because certain architectural elements, principally the round arch, resembled those of ancient Roman architecture.

A building or room of circular plan, usually domed.

Formed roughly by trimming with straight cuts to give the required shape .