Pre-Romanesque all the way. Walls two meters thick and tiny window slits. If your house can’t withstand an extended artillery barrage what’s even the point.
The two Rose windows are really impractical for actually, you know, looking through, but damn do they look fascinating. I could not see much out of those for hours.
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Pre-Romanesque all the way. Walls two meters thick and tiny window slits. If your house can’t withstand an extended artillery barrage what’s even the point.
WTF?
An oriel is any bay window that starts above the ground. There are plenty of modernist examples as well.
Y’all picking Gothic are seriously missing the Nook potential of the Oriel
The two Rose windows are really impractical for actually, you know, looking through, but damn do they look fascinating. I could not see much out of those for hours.
Yes but they are practical for your average 12th Century Raid, and for that I love them.
Good luck shooting an arrow through that!
I wouldn’t even be mad if someone managed to shoot an arrow through that, I’d be impressed!
Anglo-Saxon all the way, all day
Gothic till the day I die
Mine is the rose. Straßburg and Ulm have beautiful once!
I really like Tudor.
Rayonnant and Decorated Gothic hands down.
Anything that gives trefoils, quatrefoils and spires. I’m easy.