History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Fig. 110. Romanesque Church of Chatel-Montagne in theDepartment of Allier, France This is a pure Romanesque building with no alterations in a later style, such as are common. Heavy as the walls are, they are reenforced by buttresses along the side. All the arches are round, none of them pointed houses have been torn down in order to widen and straighten thestreets and permit the construction of modern dwellings. Hereand there one can still find a walled town, but they are few innumber and are merely curiositie
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Fig. 110. Romanesque Church of Chatel-Montagne in theDepartment of Allier, France This is a pure Romanesque building with no alterations in a later style, such as are common. Heavy as the walls are, they are reenforced by buttresses along the side. All the arches are round, none of them pointed houses have been torn down in order to widen and straighten thestreets and permit the construction of modern dwellings. Hereand there one can still find a walled town, but they are few innumber and are merely curiosities (see Fig. 131). Of the buildings erected in towns during the Middle Ages onlythe churches remain, but these fill the beholder with wonder andadmiration. It seems impossible that the cities of the twelfth andthirteenth centuries, which were neither very large nor very rich, 444 History of Europe. could possibly find money enough to pay for them. It has beenestimated that the bishops church at Paris (Notre Dame) wouldcost at least five millions of dollars — at pre-war prices— to repro-duce, and there are a number of other cathedrals in France, Eng-land, Italy, Spain, and Germany which must have been almost ascostly. No modern buildings equal them in beauty and grandeur, and they are the most strik- - fA ing memorial of the religiousspirit and the town pride ofthe Middle Ages. The construction of a cathe-dral sometimes extended overtwo or three centuries, andmuch of the money for itmust have been gatheredpenny by penny. It should beremembered that everybodybelonged in those days to theone great Catholic Church, sothat the building of a newchurch was a matter of in-terest to the whole commun-ity— to men of every rank,from the bishop himself tothe workman and the The RomanesqueStyle. Up to the twelfth cen-tury churches were built in what is called the Romanesque
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