Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . t. Lawrences Church was date usually assigned to its commencement is 1274. Probably the choirwas built then, but it, like the old eastern choir of St. Sebalds, afterwardsproved inadequate, and was consequently replaced by a great aisled choirin 1439. The Bohemian lion on a shield of arms on the west front hasreference to Charles IV. and points to the third quarter of the 14*^^ century asthe date of the sculptured decoration of the fagade. Excepting the towers,at which work was still going on in the 15^ century, and the choir (fi
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . t. Lawrences Church was date usually assigned to its commencement is 1274. Probably the choirwas built then, but it, like the old eastern choir of St. Sebalds, afterwardsproved inadequate, and was consequently replaced by a great aisled choirin 1439. The Bohemian lion on a shield of arms on the west front hasreference to Charles IV. and points to the third quarter of the 14*^^ century asthe date of the sculptured decoration of the fagade. Excepting the towers,at which work was still going on in the 15^ century, and the choir (fig. 33),erected within the second third of that century, the building was fairly com-plete by about the middle of the 14 century. Then were built the manybuttresses from which bold flying buttresses leap across to the middle aisle,which rises to twice the height of the side aisles. In 1403 the walls betweenthe buttresses were pushed outwards so far that the latter were completelyabsorbed into the church. It was thus that the quadrangular chapels inside. Fig. 2 1. St. Lawrences Church; west by Hahn. ^O ST. LAWRENCES CHURCH had their origin. The joints in the masonry and the alteration in the heightsof the cornices definitely prove that this later change was made. The archi-tectural form and adornment of the interior are simple. Octagonal pillarswith many small vaulting shafts and deeply cut hollows carry the stout ribsof the simple cross vault. Several pillars of the south arcade are strikinglydifferent. They are essentially weaker in character and have vaulting shaftsformed after the style of the pointed ribs. They are doubtless later in datethan the others. The stone staircase in the south west chapel, leadingto the old gallery, is picturesque in effect. The relief carved upon it: a rat,that passes quickly from it with a piece of flesh, is a poetic fancy, that hasgiven rise to the story of a monk walled up here, but secretly fed. Perfected German Gothic, as it
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