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Title: Cathedrals and churches of the Rhine
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: (Mansfield, Milburg Francisco), 1871- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cathedrals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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pe of manysimilar structures elsewhere. It has the al-most perfect disposition and development ofthe double apse so frequently met with inGerman churches. 308 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine In general, its architecture is of a heavyorder, and the whole structure is grim, thoughby no means gaunt nor cold.
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St. Quirinus is of the epoch when the Ro-manesque was being replaced nearly every-where by the new-coming Gothic. 309 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine In spite of this, its style is, curiously enough,neither one nor the other, nor is it transition,though the pointed arch has crept in and ofteneliminated the Romanesque attributes of theround-arch style round about. It is manifestlynot transition, because there was no transitionhere from Romanesque to Gothic. It re-mained palpably Romanesque in spite ofGothic interpolations. In the windows one can but remark theindecision which prompted the builders tofashion them in such extraordinary squatshapes, and they certainly serve their purposeof lighting the interior very badly. The nave and aisles of St. Quirinus areample, and its spacious manner chore in thetriforium is like all its fellows in the Germanchurches, an adjunct which adds to the generaleffect of size. The church dates from 1209, the periodwhen the Gothic influence was not on

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