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Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ancients and therich decoration of the interior, especially the splendid mosaics.The Gothic principle of displaying the construction and makingit ornamental was never adopted in Eome. The plain brickwalls of the aisles had small, plain, round-headed, or sometimes ITALY—MOMH. circular windows in them, and the brick wall of the clerestorywas carried upon a row of antique marble columns: at firstthese had their horizontal entablatures of marble also; after-wards small brick arches, semicircular or segmental, were in-troduced from column to column to carry the wall above, butthese were for a long period concealed behind either a realentablature or a sham one. The roofs are of wood, and ingeneral plain and ugly, though sometimes concealed by veryrich flat ceilings. This style of building continued until thealmost entire destruction of Eome in the ninth and tenthcenturies. The earliest Anglo-Saxon belfries have very much the ap-pearance of being copied from wooden towers, and this is not
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187. Wooden Tower on a stone wall, from Trajans Column. at all improbable. Wooden walls and wooden towers werecommonly used in fortifications at all periods; they are repre-sentations of wooden towers on the sculptures of TrajansColumn, at Eome. The stone construction, called long-and-short work, is much more like the work of carpenters than ofmasons. People accustomed to the use of wood only wouldnot at first know the proper manner of using stone. T 274 ITALY EOIUS, Before the time of Constantine there was only one churchbuilt as a church in Rome, this was S. Maria in Trastevere,where a spring oi ^petroleum^ or mineral oil, had sprung up andran for a few years, as we now find to be common in volcaniccountries. This was attributed to a Christian miracle, and thepopular feeling in favour of building a church on the spot, wastoo strong to be resisted by the Pagan authorities. But inRome itself, (the Trastevere is like Southwark to London,) theprimitive Christians were only allowed to as

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