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A short history of architecture (1897)

Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman,1861-1892 · New York, C. Scribner's · leaf 188

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had con-sisted of a central semicircular termination to thebuilding, flanked occasionally by two smaller semi-circular recesses containing altars. In the baptis-teries and Byzantine churches these had been mul-tiplied, and had come to be customary featuresin every new building. In England, the… … PLAN OF STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL. (Compare with Basilica, page 89.) THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. 129 ly the custom to affix apses to three sides of thesquare tower placed at the intersection of thenave and transept, and the result was generallysatisfactory, as may be seen in St. Martins ofiCologne, and in the…

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