Fergusson, James: The illustrated handbook of architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture preveiling in all ages and all countries (London, 1859)

Chap. IV.

GEENRODE—COEVEY.

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439.

View of West-end of Churck at Gernrode. X^rom Puttricb.

chiu’ch found in the monastery of St. Gall,1 except that it appears
to have been originally about 50 ft., or one-fourth less in length.
The western circular towers, instead of bcing detached, are now joined
to the building. Piers
too are introduced in-
ternally, alternating
with pillars; and al-
together the church
shows just such an ad-
vance on the St. Gall
plan as we might
expect a century or
so to produce, but
showing inost satis-
factorily what the ori-
ginal form of these
churches really was.

It possesses what
is rare in this country
— a bold triforium
gallery, and external-
ly that strange gallery
connecting the two
towers which forms
so distinguishing a
characteristic of Ger-
man churches. A still
bolder example of this
gallery remains in the
facade of the once fa-
mous abbey ofCorvey,
on the eastern fron-
tier of Westphalia
(woodcut No. 440),
where we find the
feature developed to
its fullest extent, so
that it must originally
have entirely hidden
the church placed be-
hind it.

To return, how-
ever, to Gernrode ; as
rnay be seen from pil-
lars without anything
like vaulting shafts 440. View of West-eudof Abbey of Corvey.

being used to divide

the nave from the aisles, it was originally intended to have a flat

1 See p. 556.