Anachronism in architecture
The ruins of the Hvalsey Church in Greenland.
Medieval architecture in North America is an anachronism . Some structures in North America can however be classified as medieval, either by age or origin. In rare cases these structures are seen as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact . Although much of this is pseudoscience , these buildings are of interest to American scholars of medieval architecture .
Pre-Columbian buildings [ edit ]
Transported buildings [ edit ]
Medieval building that have been transported to North America in modern times.
The Cloisters museum, New York City , a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed in a complex integrating elements from several different medieval structures[3]
St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church , a 12th-century cloister from Spain, reassembled in Florida[4]
Elements of a 12th-century cloister from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey , a Romanesque portal, and a 15th-century chapel in the Philadelphia Museum of Art [5]
Part of a Romanesque cloister in the Toledo Museum of Art , Ohio[6]
Chapel of St Martin de Sayssuel , (St. Joan of Arc Chapel ), Marquette University , Milwaukee, Wisconsin [7]
Agecroft Hall , Richmond, Virginia [8]
Chapterhouse of the Abbey of María de Óvila , under reconstruction at the Abbey of New Clairvaux , Vina, California [9]
A 1524 sidechapel from France in the Detroit Institute of Arts [10]
A 14th century cloister from France in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [11]
Parts of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California [12]
Parts of Hammond Castle , Gloucester, Massachusetts [13]
A 12th century Chapter house from France in the Worcester Art Museum , Worcester, Massachusetts [14]
Other later period buildings were also transported like the Cotswold Cottage, built in the early 17th century in Chedworth , Gloucestershire , England , now in The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan .[15] The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury , London, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 is now the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri . It includes a spiral staircase which probably dates to the 12th century.[16]