. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. esign churches is a dififerent thing from thatwhich the great monuments of antiquitycompel. The construction of the medi-aeval churches is as complex as that of thegreatest Roman monuments; this comingfrom a necessity of providing interiors rel-atively larger than those of the Romanimperial epoch. The builders even of thetwelfth century, and even in the mostnearly well governed countries of Europe,had but limited resources. No king, nogreat noble controlling a province, nobishop, no convent, however rich, coulddisp
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. esign churches is a dififerent thing from thatwhich the great monuments of antiquitycompel. The construction of the medi-aeval churches is as complex as that of thegreatest Roman monuments; this comingfrom a necessity of providing interiors rel-atively larger than those of the Romanimperial epoch. The builders even of thetwelfth century, and even in the mostnearly well governed countries of Europe,had but limited resources. No king, nogreat noble controlling a province, nobishop, no convent, however rich, coulddispose of resources for one instant com-parable to those of a Roman pro-consul ineven a small town of the empire. Themediaeval men had to get as much buildingas they could for their money; If theybuilt their walls thick, as they seem to themodern traveller, this was because theywere unable to get good masons. A stonewall may be carried up forty feet high witha thickness of only three feet, even whenpierced with windows, if you have goodworkmen in your employ and fairly good[80]. CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES, COLOGNE, RHEXISH X!X.
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