A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 236
d S. Maria Jlaggiore at ROUND CHURCH of uncertain <Iate, shows the masonry of a cen-tury or two Inter. It was doubtless meantoriginally for a baptistery, for wliicli the unu-sually large font still occupies the centre. Bothwere evidently cunverteil into churches forliturgical worship some time… … Round Church: S. Gereons at CoLor.NE; the Older Part now ai.tehed into a Gothic Ro-tunda; ITS Plan is op unknown antiquity; probably 4th Ckntury a.d. Nocera, already mentioned, the 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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