Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . etrically opposite directions—eachindividual group of apse and dome suffers by rivalry withthe other\ The typical plan of these double-apsidal churches Double 1 11 1- J transepts includes a transept at the west as well as at the east end, and towers 1 Discourse delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on thedistribution of prizes, Dec. 9, 1893, by Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart., 12 GERMAN ROMANESQUE [ch. xviii The and over the crossing of each of them is an octagonal six towers doHie on squinch arches, contained in a tower which isarcaded wit
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . etrically opposite directions—eachindividual group of apse and dome suffers by rivalry withthe other\ The typical plan of these double-apsidal churches Double 1 11 1- J transepts includes a transept at the west as well as at the east end, and towers 1 Discourse delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on thedistribution of prizes, Dec. 9, 1893, by Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart., 12 GERMAN ROMANESQUE [ch. xviii The and over the crossing of each of them is an octagonal six towers doHie on squinch arches, contained in a tower which isarcaded with an external gallery and has a more or lessacutely pointed roof. Right and left of this are twoflanking towers, often at the end of the transept so thatthere are three towers on a line at right angles to the axisof the building at each end of it. In other cases they aregiven more room by moving the two side towers forwardout of line with the central dome-tower. Six towers isthe full complement for a Rhenish church of the first woem;. SCALE OF rrrr Fig. 68. WormsCathedral rank, and this is the number at Worms, Speyer, Laachand Mainz. All these churches, except Laach which isa little later, date from the first half of the nth century,though they have been altered to some extent in the12th century and afterwards. Worms is perhaps the most pleasing of the was founded in ioi6, but restored and re-dedicated inI i8i. It is an immense basilican church, with two apses,but only one transept, which is at the eastern end(Fig. 68). The choir is prolonged beyond the crossingand the apse is masked outside by a straight wall between Plate LXXXV
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