. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. CHTTKCH AT DENNDOEF. for the intermediate nave made it impossible for the com-batants on the choir to cast projectiles in that CHURCH AT BONESDOEF. Such tower, and so placed, became therefore a necessarybulwark. o 2 196 TRANSYLVANIA. In another sort of church, the architect made thethe most salient feature, as well as the strongest part, byplacing it in the tower. All the importance, both for theeye and for defence, was concentrated there. It had thebuttresses joined by arches, as in the ot


. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. CHTTKCH AT DENNDOEF. for the intermediate nave made it impossible for the com-batants on the choir to cast projectiles in that CHURCH AT BONESDOEF. Such tower, and so placed, became therefore a necessarybulwark. o 2 196 TRANSYLVANIA. In another sort of church, the architect made thethe most salient feature, as well as the strongest part, byplacing it in the tower. All the importance, both for theeye and for defence, was concentrated there. It had thebuttresses joined by arches, as in the other specimen,have seen, with intervening spaces for letting objectsfall. At the summit, too, it was loop-holed, like the wallsof the choir. An exception to this is a church at Baassen; the choiris in the tower, but the latter has no buttresses, gallery,or loop-holes, and is in its whole appearance like an ordi-nary tower.


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