What are the main features of a Norman castle?

Answer 1

Roughly, Gothic architecture, mainly in churches and cathedrals, has arches that come to a bit of a point at the top, steeply-pitched stone roofs (previous architecture had flatter wood roofs that would burn and collapse into the church), and had interior outer aisles with clerestory windows up high, and also vaulted ceilings whose crossings feature groined 'joints'.

Answer 2

• harmonious proportions
• stone barrel vault or groin vault
• thick and heavy walls
• thick and heavy pillars
• small windows
• round arches supporting the roof
• round "blind arches" used extensively for decoration inside and out (especially out)
• nave with side aisles (though some modest churches are aisleless)
• galleries above the side aisles, separated from the nave by a triforium
• a transept (section crossing the nave at a right angle, giving the church a cross shape)
• an apse (semicircular niche, usually in the east end)
• an ambulatory (often with radiating chapels) around the apse
• multiple towers, usually at the west end and over the transept crossing
• sculptured decoration on portals, capitals and other surfaces (except in Cistercian monasteries)
• painted decoration throughout the interior (little of which survives today)

Answer 3

Three common features of a Romanesque castle are: a mota or a drawbridge, windows are smal and a few in number, and tapestries were placed inside the castle in order to decorate the dark rooms.

Answer 4

pointed arches