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Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)

Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 139

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ch was carvedabout 400 a.d. On it appears a church, as asymbol of Jerusalem, and this church has twohigh round towers attached to it; the wholelooks like a Romanesque church of the twelfthcentury (fig. 24). There is a somewhatsimilar representation on a panel of the beauti-ful doors of Santa… … EARLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 137 very marked. All redundance has disap-peared, and yet all is workmanlike and fit.The fronts of some of the houses associatedwith these churches are made up of a seriesof square monolith posts to every floor linkedby big square beams, all of stone. Not-withstanding the…

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