History of mediæval art . inued around the soffit of the arch aslarge mouldings, in the same way as were the shafts of the system satisfied alike the aesthetic and the practical require- 18 274 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. ments, and prepared the way for the introduction of a vaultedceiling above the nave. The Romanic basilicas with arcades supported upon columnsalone were rare in Saxony, and of course restricted to the churcheswith horizontal ceilings. Three of these are known—the CollegiateChurch upon the Moritzberg near Hildesheim, the Convent Churchof Paulinzelle {Fig. 142), and that
History of mediæval art . inued around the soffit of the arch aslarge mouldings, in the same way as were the shafts of the system satisfied alike the aesthetic and the practical require- 18 274 ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. ments, and prepared the way for the introduction of a vaultedceiling above the nave. The Romanic basilicas with arcades supported upon columnsalone were rare in Saxony, and of course restricted to the churcheswith horizontal ceilings. Three of these are known—the CollegiateChurch upon the Moritzberg near Hildesheim, the Convent Churchof Paulinzelle {Fig. 142), and that of Hamersleben, founded respect-ively in 1060, 1105, and 1108. The two latter buildings are verysimilar; their pleasing proportions and beautiful decorative detailsseem to point to foreign influence, particularly to that of Franconia. The high degree of independence recognizable in Saxony was not to be expected in the Rhenish countries. The influence ofthe traditions and examples of classic and Carolingian architecture. Fig. 155.—Plan of the Convent Church of Limburg on the Hardt. continued to be felt, although the barbarous taste of the times hadled to so great a decadence of monumental building that timberwas employed even for the most important edifices, as, for instance,the Church of St. Stephen at Mayence, built about the year enormous Convent Church of Limburg on the Hardt {Fig. 155),erected by the emperor, Conrad II., between 1024 and 1039, anc^ tneChurch of St. George, now that of St. James, at Cologne, consecratedin 1067, both exhibit Romanic details. Nevertheless, in the recon-struction of St. Justinus in Hoechst on the Main, A. D. 1090, roughCorinthian capitals were introduced, which probably were vestigesof the older edifice. It is also not certain whether the rude imita-tions of ancient forms which appear in the pilaster capitals of theupper story of the west towers of St. Castor in Bonn are referable GERMANY. 275 to the Carolingian epoch or to the el
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