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. I.

CHURCH AT MUHLHAUSEX.

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in length, is an elaborate specimen of German ornamentation in its
utmost extravagance, ancl, considering its
age, in singnlarlj bad taste, at least the lower
part. The clerestory is unohjectionahle, hut
the tracery of the windows and walls of the
side aisles shows how ingeniously it was pos-
sihle to misapply even the beautiful details
of the early part of the 14th century. At
Wemer’s Chapel, Bacharach, on the Bhine,
this is avoided, and, as far as can be judged
from the fragment that remains, it must, if it
ever was completed, have been one of the best
specimens of German art in that part of the
country. The nave of the cathedral at Meissen,
though marked by many of the faults of
Geiman design, is still a beautiful esample
of well-understood detail.

As a purely German design nothing can
surpass the Maria Kirche at Muhlhausen
(woodcut jN o. 614). The nave is nearly square,

87 ft. and 105, and divided into 5 aisles by 4

rows of pillars supporting the vaults, all at the same level. To the

MarniKirche at MuhLhausen.
Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.

View of Maria Kirche at Muhlhauseu.

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