. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . from the church of S. Vitale atEavenna; the construction is debased Eoman. The campaniles or belfry-towers of Germany have quite a dis-tinct character of their own, which seems to be a develop-ment of the Anglo-Saxon towers of England, originally carriedto Germany by the English missionaries, but never fully de-veloped in England because the Normans preferred their owntowers, which are of a dilferent type. The earlier belfry-towersin Germany approach the nearest to the Anglo-Saxon type;long-and-sJiort work is frequently used, and most of
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . from the church of S. Vitale atEavenna; the construction is debased Eoman. The campaniles or belfry-towers of Germany have quite a dis-tinct character of their own, which seems to be a develop-ment of the Anglo-Saxon towers of England, originally carriedto Germany by the English missionaries, but never fully de-veloped in England because the Normans preferred their owntowers, which are of a dilferent type. The earlier belfry-towersin Germany approach the nearest to the Anglo-Saxon type;long-and-sJiort work is frequently used, and most of the othercharacteristic features of that style are found. This type oftower spreads over nearly the whole of the north of Germany,and into the German part of Switzerland, where we also find atEoman-Motier a church, with other parts besides the tower, ofAnglo-Saxon character. o See Archceologia, toI. xxxvii. p. 253, 1857. GERMANY, 305 Remembering that a great part of Germany was converted toChristianity by English or Anglo-Saxon missionaries, it seems. 189. Portion of the Tower of the Palace of Charlemagne, at Aix-la-Chapelle, shewing the Original Masonry. probable that they brought their own style of church buildingwith them. It may be, however, that both copied theii; earliest X 3o6 CONCLUSION. stone buildings from the wooden buildings which were in usebefore. In some of the churches on the Rhine of the twelfth centuryvery peculiar windows are used; they are of an ugly shape, andnot much to be admired in themselves, but they are cuspated,and are perhaps the earliest examples of the use of cusps. Itseems probable that window-tracery may have been developedin Germany earlier than in France or England. In part of Germany domical vaults are found of a style verysimilar to those of Anjou and Poitou, but there is no reason tosuppose that they are copied one from the other; both are pro-bably developed in the same manner from the mixture of theByzantine and the Roman, and by a furthe
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