Romanesque Revival

Heavy masonry, round arches and rough-faced stone, including the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Historic places
301Historic places
Built
1818–1969Built
Provinces and territories
10Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 65
  • Provincial 43
  • Municipal 193
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Ontario82
  • Manitoba67
  • British Columbia44
  • New Brunswick23
  • Quebec22
  • Saskatchewan17
  • Prince Edward Island14
  • Nova Scotia13
  • Alberta11
  • Newfoundland and Labrador8

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1890s: 107 of the 293 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1818St. Raphael's Church RuinsKing's, Ontario
  2. 1839Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Municipal Heritage BuildingSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
  3. 1839Basilica Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Registered Heritage StructureSt. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

The register gives no construction date for 8 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 222 of these 301 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)23 places
  2. David Ewart (biography, opens in a new tab)11 places
  3. J.H. Cadham (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  4. George W. Grant (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  5. Thomas Hooper (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  6. Edward Maxwell (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 301 places

Often found together

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