A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 236
e and S. Maria Maggiore at ROUND CHURCH of uncertain date, shows tiu^ masonry (jf a cen-tury or two later. It was doubtlesK meantoriginally for a bai)tistery, for which the unu-sually large font still occupies the centre. Bothwere evidently converted into churches forliturgical worship stmie time… … Round Church.; S. Gereons at Coloone; the Oldek Part now altered into a Gothic Ro-tunda ; ITS Plan is of unknown antiquity ; probably Ith 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…
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