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which were excavated at the royal vida at Yeavering.
McClendon is extremely cautions not to omit the
fact that the "barbarian" component had its tole in
the formation of the Christian architecture on the
British Isles. He also highlights a general prédilection
for rectilinear building which he had also noted in
the chapters on the Visigothic Spain (San Pedro de la
Nave) or Merovingian France (St. Jean, Poitiers), and
the same phenomenon may be observed among the
earliest of important monastic foundations of the
Carolingian times - at Lorsch (765 - 774, aisleless
church with a rectangular apse), Centula (790 - 799,
aisled, double-transept plan with a square presby-
tery), or, a few décades later, at St. Galien (830 - 836,
large rectangular block with an equally rectangular
western annex). A similar situation can be observed
withm royal estâtes, as witnessed by the audience hall
(elongated rectangle) and the church at Paderborn

' McCLENDON, C.: R& cf New
Haven - London 2005, pp. 60-65, 72-83, 104-105, 152-153,
153-158, 171-172. See also SLUPECKI, L. P.: JAwG
Warszawa 1994, 6g. 5, pp. 108-116, 135-137. On
combinadon of centralized chapel and a palace-hall, see WA-

(under construction in 777, aisleless church with a
short rectangular sanctuary and equally rectangular
side spaces). In fact, a réévaluation in the light of
McClendon's conclusions of the presumably earliest
large Croatian Pre-Romanesque buildings in Dal-
matia as mentioned above — St. Martha in Bijači, SS.
Mary and Stephen at Crkvina in Biskupija, the church
at Koljani (?) — is absolutely indicated. St. Martha [Fig.
1.4] in outline mdeed is not far from Lorsch, and
Crkvina and Koljani [Figs. 1.1, 1.2] from St. Galien.
Thus, whereas there may be a local tradition, the early
group of Carolingian buildings seems to hâve had a
fairly direct effect, too, and our Gumpertus [Fig. 2]
may hâve indeed known some such structures before
arriving to Croatiaf More light may also be shed on
such buildings as the church at Zalavár - Récéskút
[Fig. 13], as well as on the newly discovered large
Pre-Romanesque building at Lobor in northwestern
LICKd, M. (ed.): AyA/G PGG — pryAro/TM/yrG ? A
vAA/A2IÍ GG. Warszawa 1968, pp. 76-77 (Ostrow Lednicki,
Giecz, Przemysl, Wislica). As opposed to the Itish examples, at
the presumed Slavic sites we hâve a sort of a reverse, i.e., the se-
cular building is rectangular and the sacred precinct rounded.