A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 54
oper. The exterior would alwayshave been, as was the case with buildings at allknown to us, severely constructional, the radiat-ing walls which su])ported the seats enclosinggalleries which were vaulted overhead and wiiichformed on the exterior ojjen arches. The upper-most story alone seems, in the… … Ambulatort of the Cloister; Abbey op Rommersdokf,Neuwied, Gerjunv. ably adorned only by statuary placed beneatheach arch, and perhaps a low wall or parapetraised above the sill of each opening. Exteriorsplendour \v;is not much in the mind of thedesigner of one of these great buildings, as isevident…
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