Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ly havebeen drawn by Eginhardt himselP. It shows a churchwith nave and side aisles, 200 ft. long and 80 ft. widewith an apse at each end. Below that at the east isa crypt or confessio, and in front of it a chorus cantorumlike those at S. Clemente and S. Maria in Cosmedin atRome. The entrances for the laity were from a parvise orcolonnaded court outside the western apse, with a door tothe aisle on each side of it. The eastern apse was to bededicated to S. Peter, the western to S. Paul. Near thewestern apse, but detached, were to be two round towers,one on
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ly havebeen drawn by Eginhardt himselP. It shows a churchwith nave and side aisles, 200 ft. long and 80 ft. widewith an apse at each end. Below that at the east isa crypt or confessio, and in front of it a chorus cantorumlike those at S. Clemente and S. Maria in Cosmedin atRome. The entrances for the laity were from a parvise orcolonnaded court outside the western apse, with a door tothe aisle on each side of it. The eastern apse was to bededicated to S. Peter, the western to S. Paul. Near thewestern apse, but detached, were to be two round towers,one on each side with an altar on the top of each, one toS. Michael, one to S. Gabriel, to which the ascent was tobe by a spiral inclined plane, if the intention of thedraughtsman may be so understood. These double apsidal ends of course prevented any-thing like the fa9ades which are so important a feature of As the plan is reproduced by Fergusson and most of the histories ofArchitecture, I think it unnecessary to have it here. Plate S. COLU MBA-COLOGNE r^ CH. xviii] GERMAN ROMANESQUE n the great churches in Italy, France and England. The Defects ofcathedral of S. Stephen at Vienna has a fine Roman- apsidar^esque front with its giant doorway, but_as_a rule the ^*^entrance to the great German churches is at the sUeTwhere there^ oiteiraporch~ot greater or iess~ involves a considerable sacrifice of effect; the firstview of a fine interior from the west end is not lightlyto be parted with. Nor does the exterior of the westernapse compensate for the loss of such a fa9ade as thosewhich delight us at Lucca and Toscanella, S. Gilles andPoitiers, Wells and Exeter. In the interior also themonotony of two similar apsidal ends is Leighton, whose remarks on architecture were Lordalways valuable, said in one of his Presidential addresses remarS^to the Royal Academy, externally the effect of thisdisposition is monotonous and perplexing, but it is inthe int
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