=== St Denis, Chartres, Mantes, Laon and Paris ===The transition from the Romanesque style to the Gothic was not clear cut, even at the Abbey of St Denis, to the north of Paris, where the Abbot Suger, between 1130 and 1144, gathered the various newly emerging features of Gothic into a single building, thereby “creating” the Gothic style.
Ko so se okna povečala v kasnejšem obdobju romanike, so kolesna okna postala standardna lastnost, s številnimi izvrstnimi primeri v San Zeno Maggiore v Veroni in katedrali v Monzi.