. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. CHURCH AT BONESDOEF. Such tower, and so placed, became therefore a necessarybulwark. o 2 196 TRANSYLVANIA. In another sort of church, the architect made thethe most salient feature, as well as the strongest part, byplacing it in the tower. All the importance, both for theeye and for defence, was concentrated there. It had thebuttresses joined by arches, as in the other specimen,have seen, with intervening spaces for letting objectsfall. At the summit, too, it was loop-holed, like the wallsof the choir.
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. CHURCH AT BONESDOEF. Such tower, and so placed, became therefore a necessarybulwark. o 2 196 TRANSYLVANIA. In another sort of church, the architect made thethe most salient feature, as well as the strongest part, byplacing it in the tower. All the importance, both for theeye and for defence, was concentrated there. It had thebuttresses joined by arches, as in the other specimen,have seen, with intervening spaces for letting objectsfall. At the summit, too, it was loop-holed, like the wallsof the choir. An exception to this is a church at Baassen; the choiris in the tower, but the latter has no buttresses, gallery,or loop-holes, and is in its whole appearance like an ordi-nary : ~r - vhk CHURCH AT BAA- In all parts of the province you find these picturesquemonuments, which cannot fail to interest the stranger,whether he be artist, antiquarian, or mere ordinarytraveller. These are so peculiar in themselves, 90 dis-tinctive of, and specially belonging to the people, whoerected them, that they ought to be preserved. I call attention to this, because part o\ the fortificationof a most admirable specimen of such edifice was to havebeen destroyed to make way for a school-house, as if lor MEDIASCH. 197 this building another site could not be found. It is thechurch at Agnetheln I allude to. In spring the destructionwas to have begun, but I have since learned it has beendetermined not to commit the vandalism. These citadel-churches are monuments of which the Saxons ought to beproud. They are, with their burghs, the best, indeed theonly ones they have. They speak better than columns ortriumphal arches of the courage, devotion, and energy oftheir peasant ancestors,—
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