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Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy (1855)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J.Murray · leaf 268

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behind whichrose a circular brick spire.This tower was to the south-east of the church. At Longadore we saw another church with a goodearly campanile, of which I made a sketch. This wasRomanesque, with angle pilasters, and a central pilas-ter carried up as high as the belfry stage. The… … 192 CREMONA. Chap. IX. brick and covered in with a flat modern roof; the anglepilasters finished in arcaded string-courses. Generallyspeaking, in these churches the only ancient featuresseem to be the campaniles, and these are always of brickand nearly the same in their general design,…

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