. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . p. X.] PALACE OF JURISCONSULTS. 269 octagonal in its plan, built of brick \Yith the exception of theside in which the door is placed, this being of mar1)le, and isvery simple in all its detail. There are three altars in it,and an immense erection of masonry in the centre, which,though not open, is evidently a font, amply large for im-mersion. Each side has three recessed arches on marblecolumns, above which the whole is of red brick with stonestring-courses between the stages. These have corbel-tablesunder them, whic
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . p. X.] PALACE OF JURISCONSULTS. 269 octagonal in its plan, built of brick \Yith the exception of theside in which the door is placed, this being of mar1)le, and isvery simple in all its detail. There are three altars in it,and an immense erection of masonry in the centre, which,though not open, is evidently a font, amply large for im-mersion. Each side has three recessed arches on marblecolumns, above which the whole is of red brick with stonestring-courses between the stages. These have corbel-tablesunder them, which are the only enrichments in the the brickwork is left to view inside, and the light isadmitted by a pierced arcade very high up in the whole is domed over with an octagonal vault of brick,in the centre of which is a small lantern, and the effect isexceedingly fine and solemn, and enhanced very much bythe grave sombre colour of the bricks. Close to the baptistery is a building, called in MurraysHandbook the Palace of the Jurisconsults, turned when I. wixiMjw-jAMu—1alacl; of jurisconsults, first saw it into a school for a not very polite set of childrenand teachers, who all apparently felt the most lively interest 270 CREMONA. [Chap. X. in my architectural pursuits. It was originally openbelow, but the arches on which it stood are now filled upper stage is very simple and beautiful, and the wholeis finished at the top with a cornice and parapet, withbattlements pointed at the top like those in the Torrazzo,and not forked as we have been lately so accustomed to seethem. At one end of this parapet a chimney rises above
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