Note 17 — PART I.—NORMAN
Reading edition
Builder, July 2, 1892, p. 12. This term “Romanesque” has become a ready source of confusion. It is used in at least two distinct senses.
(a) The architecture prevalent in Western Europe contemporary with our Anglo-Norman. In this sense it appears to be used by the writer in the Builder; and I should say that the intersection of the arcading ought to be added to the “Romanesque” peculiarities.
(b) As a general term for the architecture prevalent in Western Europe prior to the introduction of the Gothic. In this latter and more accepted use of the term English Saxon and Norman architecture would both be included. The term was intended to imply of Roman or Italian origin.