A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 133
more probable suggestion is that the people when first convertedto Christianity clung to the circular form, as the sacred one whichthey had been accustomed to reverence in the tombs of their ancestors. 112 SCANDINAVIAN ARCHITECTURE. Faut II. Such, for instance, were the three mounds said to cover… … 10 20 40 60 80 ft. 555. Section and Ground-plan of Round Church, Thorsager. (From Marryats Jutlandand the Danish Isles.) those circles of stones —half tomb, half temple — which are known asspread over this country from Stonehenge to Stennis, and which areequally common throughout the Scandinavian…
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