irteenthcentury, its principal church dedicated to St.Quirinus. This church stands to-day, with its greatsquare tower looming bulkily over the house-tops, and is reckoned as the prototype of manysimilar structures elsewhere. It has the al-most perfect disposition and development ofthe double apse… … St. Quirinus is of the epoch when the Ro-manesque was being replaced nearly every-where by the new-coming Gothic. 309 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine In spite of this, its style is, curiously enough,neither one nor the other, nor is it transition,though the pointed arch has crept in and…
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