A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 231
t Rome and S. Maria Maggiore at ROUND CHURCH of uncertain date, shows the masonry of a cen-tury or two later. It wa.s doubtless meantoriginally for a baptisteiy, for which the unu-sually large font still oecuines the centre. Bothwere evidently converted into churches forlitiugical worship some time… … Round Church: S. Gereons at Cologne; the Older Part now altered into a Gothic Ko-tunda; its Plan is of unknown antiquity; probably 4th Century a.d. Nocera, already mentioned, tiie second an obvi-ous imitation of the first, are of peculiar form.A circular arcade, in the one case of twelvearches and…
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