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Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tower. The choirconsists of three semicircular apses radiatingfrom a lantern. Round and pomted auhes aieused in juxtaposition Thechurch is one of those veiystriking ones which mikcsone regret that the Geimansal>andoned this style foithe develojied Goth-ic. Upon the richlyadorned west frontis the date li09, andas this occurs nearthe ground, no doubtit records the com-mencement of thebuilding. We will now passon to what may beregarded as theheadijuarters of Ger-man niedi;i;val archi-tecture, the city ofCologne. The church of S.Maria-im-Cajjitol GERMANY chiefly arises from the curious manner in whichthe church is planned. The nave consists of alofty polygon of unequal sides arranged so as tobe longer from east to west than from north tosouth. The vaulting is very much domed uptoward the centre, and there is a long aislelesschoir built over a very ancient crypt, with gen-uine Roman mosaic pavements. The beautifulnave of this church was completed as late as the year \22 of S. Kuui- A ^
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Germany, 1art I. (the KhinelandJ : (Jathedkal of Speyeb; (See Plan.) Exterior. an example of very early Romanesque, conse-crated in the year 1049 and structurally littlealtered since ; it has apsidal choir and transeptsall planned in a similar way with aisles goinground. S. Marys is a very severe plain build-ing, with square piers, unmovdded arches, andsimple cross vaulting, but it has a decidedEastern character about it, which is also to benoted in the slightly later churches of the Apos-tles and S. JIartin ; but that which exhiliitsthis characteristic in the most marked degree isthe church of S. Gereon. Here no doubt it199 bert, an example of the latest Romanesque, war;erected between the years 1239—1248, the lat-ter being a most important epoch in the historyof German architecture, for in that year wascommenced the great cathedral of Cologne. Cologne cathedral is supposed to have beendesigned by Gerhard (Von Rile). It appearsmost remarkable tliat the completion of S.Kuniberts and

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