Round church


A round church is a special type of church construction, having a completely circular plan. There are many Nordic round churches in Sweden and Denmark and were popular church constructions in Scandinavia in the 11th and early 12th centuries.
Round churches should not be confused with the older types of round-tower church constructions. Churches with many-sided polygonal shapes are colloquially referred to as round as well.

Round churches by country

Bosnia

in Sarajevo.

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

, Inuvik; St. Jude's Cathedral, Iqaluit; Saint George's Round Church, Halifax

Croatia

in Rijeka.

Denmark

, Nylars Church, Saint Ols Church and Østerlars Church, Bornholm; Bjernede Church, Zealand; Horne Church, Funen, and Thorsager Church, Jutland.

United Kingdom

There are four medieval round churches still in use in England: Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge; Temple Church, London; St. John the Baptist Church, Little Maplestead, Essex, and The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton. St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury is a Georgian round church, and the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral was built in the 20th century. The 18th-century All Saints' Church, Newcastle upon Tyne is redundant and used for other purposes.
In Scotland, the medieval Orphir Round Church near Houton on Mainland, Orkney is in ruins. Kilarrow Parish Church at the top of main street in Bowmore, is a round church, built in 1767, on the island of Islay, on Scotland's west coast.

Germany

. Liebfrauenkirche in Trier. St. Ludwig in Darmstadt, Hessen. There is also a round church in Untersuhl, Thuringia.

Hungary

in Kallósd, Roman Catholic Church in Kiszombor, :hu:Ösküi_kerektemplom| Rotunda in Öskü, St. Jacob rotunda in Ják, :hu:Ösküi_kerektemplom|Neoclassical church in Balatonfüred.

Italy

in Rome; Church of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in Rome; Old Cathedral of Brescia; Church of Saint Lawrence in Mantua; Santo Stefano, Bologna; Church of Saint Angelo in Perugia; Church of Saint Marie in Forlì.

Philippines

in the campus of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City.

Portugal

, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

Serbia

at Red Cross, Belgrade; Church of Saint Basil of Ostrog in New Belgrade; Evangelical church in Zemun.

Spain

Iglesia San Marcos, Salamanca

Sweden