Religious Buildings: monasteries
To build monasteries they used sand, limé, granite, plate, states, mud, glass, complementary materials and quartside.
A monastery is a building where one or more monks live in a cloister.
Religious Buildings: cathedrals
The cathedrals in the 11th century were built with the Romanesque style. The cathedrals were built in the form of a rectangular basilica. They have a huge dome of stone called barrel vault, they were made to support the stone vaults. They have small windows.
The cathedrals like many churches have complex forms that are found less frequently in parish churches. Cathedrals and large churches used to be the best buildings in each region. The architecture was made by axes, the transept, the façade, the nave… The materials used were stone, granite, and other sandstone to reinforce.
The central nave was built with stone and higher than the sides they used cross vaults, buttres and flying buttres painted arches , huge windows, rosettes and stained glasses.
The naves ended in apse. The transept was the short part consisting of three naves, the central was the widest, the ambulatory is the holy way that goes around the apse. They used buttresses, thick walls , domes ,barrel vaults and edge, arches, columns and pillars.