Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 142
ood idea of the amount of rich ornament often con-centrated here : it displays a wealth of decorative sculp-ture, which was one of the great merits of the Germanarchitects. The latest development of Gothic in Germany, of whichthe Church of St. Catherine at Oppenheim (Fjg, -18) is aspecimen, was… … Fig. 4-i.—Double Church at Suhwaktz-Rheindorff. Slction. (1158.) the execution of them became a kind of masonic puzzle.Two or more groups of mouldings were supposed to co-exist in the same stone, and sometimes a part of onegroup, sometimes a part of the other group, became visibleat the surface.…
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