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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ^^^imi\^i^mM^mii\. Germany. Faux I. (the ;i : Cathe-dral at Spever; Longitudinal Section. (SeePlan.) This is typical German work, and shows the highest reach ofconstructional excellence of the pure Romanesque style. school of Westphalia. It consists of a lofty nave and four aisles, supported by double Hying 198 GERMANY buttresses, very like those of Cologne stately choir terminates in five apses. Thecloister and chapter house are simpler, and builtinto their walls are Roman monume
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ^^^imi\^i^mM^mii\. Germany. Faux I. (the ;i : Cathe-dral at Spever; Longitudinal Section. (SeePlan.) This is typical German work, and shows the highest reach ofconstructional excellence of the pure Romanesque style. school of Westphalia. It consists of a lofty nave and four aisles, supported by double Hying 198 GERMANY buttresses, very like those of Cologne stately choir terminates in five apses. Thecloister and chapter house are simpler, and builtinto their walls are Roman monuments and in-scriptions. Few churches in Germany haveso thoroughly escaped modernization. The townretains its niedi:eval walls and gates, wliieh arcworthy of inspection, and a museum of Eomananti(iuities found on the spot. Some five miles from Xanten is another inter-esting old town, Calcar. The clun-ch is a plainbrick building, partaking more of the Dutchthan the Westiihalian style; it Is, Imwever, asrich in beautiful furniture as Xanten. Thisremarkable characteristic is accounted for by thefact that
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