. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. g over thebalustrades of the upper corridor, and looking atthe opposite piers. Jhe ndiister at lreiburg-im-Breisgau, is remarkable as being almost tlie onlylarge Gothic cliurcli in Germany which is finished,and has escaped destruction. It was begun 1152, asappears in the roinanesque transepts witii their exter-nal turrets ; the nave, west frcnt, the tower 380 (t. high,skilfully changed from scpiare to ociagon, with openspire, and rich jiorch below i
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. g over thebalustrades of the upper corridor, and looking atthe opposite piers. Jhe ndiister at lreiburg-im-Breisgau, is remarkable as being almost tlie onlylarge Gothic cliurcli in Germany which is finished,and has escaped destruction. It was begun 1152, asappears in the roinanesque transepts witii their exter-nal turrets ; the nave, west frcnt, the tower 380 (t. high,skilfully changed from scpiare to ociagon, with openspire, and rich jiorch below it, date 1236-72;clioir (;.(/. 255.) belongs to the year in, whicii in France dales 1250, is seen mllie west front, 1287, of the catliedral at Agrain, wheretiie choir dates 1305-19, with a later na\e. 571. In ihe second period elegance and richnesswere sought; the latter was obtained, but tiie iormerwas lost in a manner whicii may easiest be expressed in tlie statement tiiat everylliiii;^s»ems to an adtlilion as an tliougiit Decoration is spread on tiic work: witness tlie h i»*»>.«wK>jgaiH tilThe. HISTORY OF ARCIIITECTUIIE. Book 1 crocktts and c:i])itals wliicli are only siiigk loaves glued to tlieir places initead of the treeljgrowing foliage of the previous period. In the 1-ltii century occuired the construction of the nave at Meissen cathedral,iM2-42; the tower and clioir of St. Elizabeth at Kasciiau, 1321; St, Mary at Prenziau,
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