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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 206

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e most striking feature was the associationof two, four, or even six square or circulartowers with the mass of the church, and theelevation of square or polygonal turrets orcupolas over the crossing. These adjunctsgave a very picturesque aspect to edificesotherwise somewhat wanting in artistic… … FIG. 99.—PLAN OF MINSTER AT WORMS. 174 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. teresting trio of churches in which the Byzantine dome onsquinches or on pendentives, with three apses or nichesopening into the central area, was associated with a longthree aisled nave (St. Mary-in-the-Capitol, begun in 9thcentury;…

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