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Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)

Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 304

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CIRCULAR EDIFICES very clever way shown in the plan (111. 85). The nave wasmade octagonal, the exterior wall sixteen-sided, a device bymeans of which the aisle was divided into alternately squareand triangular compartments easily covered with groinedvaults. Aachen was extensively copied throughout… … III. 88. — Plan of Church at Germigny-les-Pres. (FromArch, de la Com. des Mon. Hist.) come a square surmounted by a construction that suggests acentral tower rather than a dome. The aisle also has beenmade square, and three (possibly four) apses have been added.It is curious that a plan almost…

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