. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. in it near thetop was once a row of round-headed clerestorywindows, now unfortunately superseded by hugelunettes as at Parenzo. The aisle windows are alsomodernized, but one of the original windows \^asdiscovered in the side wall about twenty years agoin fixing an altar opposite the arch E—F. It wasa wide round-arched opening filled with a slabof interlacing bandwoi-k with pierced intervals,(vid. Fig. 128), something like that we saw still inposition at S. Lorenzo in Pasenatico (vid, supra, , Fig. 11
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. in it near thetop was once a row of round-headed clerestorywindows, now unfortunately superseded by hugelunettes as at Parenzo. The aisle windows are alsomodernized, but one of the original windows \^asdiscovered in the side wall about twenty years agoin fixing an altar opposite the arch E—F. It wasa wide round-arched opening filled with a slabof interlacing bandwoi-k with pierced intervals,(vid. Fig. 128), something like that we saw still inposition at S. Lorenzo in Pasenatico (vid, supra, , Fig. 11 5). This tracery at Grado was taken outof the wall and is now to be seen in the close examination it proves not to be of stonebut of a kind of concrete, cast no doubt in a rough E e 2 420 Grado: the Duomo. [Ch. xxxvr. mould for repetition throughout the church. Theclerestory windows, it is said, are known to havebeen filled with similar tracery. The roof is of wood in basilican style, not very oldbut simple and effective. The ancient mosaic pavements of Grado (vid. ^ WINDOW TRACETRY . GRADOFi?. 128. 12 5 and Plate LXVI) will perhaps make as strongan impression on the visitor as any other feature ofthe chm^ch. They seem at first sight to extend overthe whole area of the nave, under the seats as wellas in the middle passage ; and although a large partof the mosaic proves on further insi:)ection to be or- Ch. XXXVI.] Grado: the Dnomo. 42 r dinary modern work, still enough of the old remainsto give the entire design, and no other church of thedate has so well preserved its original flooring. AtParenzo there was once a similar pavement, of whichProfessor Eitelberger saw fragments, but it has nowbeen removed or buried by the raising of the navefloor. At Zara there was another as Porphyrogen-itus tells us, but there remain only a few pieces ofit worked in with the later paving. At Pola therewas one, of which small pieces may be seen at thebottom of excavations a y
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