Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay' has mentioned 'Architecture' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Contents 1 History 1.1 Foundation of the order 1.2 History of the abbey 2 Architecture 2.1 Background 2.2 Buildings 3 Gallery 4 References 5 External links | WIKI |
| Architecture[edit] | WIKI |
| [3] The spirit of Cistercian architecture is simple, conservative, and utilitarian. | WIKI |
| [4] The church of the abbey is of typical Cistercian architecture, built in the Romanesque style. | WIKI |
| With its austere architecture, church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and its ironworks, it illustrates the ideal of self-sufficiency as practised by the earliest communities of Cistercian monks. | UNESCO |
| The perfection of the proportions, the rigour of the wall openings and the science of the vaultings, the beauty of the wall masonry which places impeccable courses of ashlar side by side with crude rough-cut rubble constitute the value of this architecture. | UNESCO |
| Built in a remote location but near to a water source and agricultural land, and proscribing all decor but using a scholarly architecture on a monumental scale, presenting stark spaces adapted to the rigorous life according to monastic rule, but also specialised functional areas of great technical sophistication, the Cistercian abbeys form a family apart in western monastical architecture. | UNESCO |