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POINTED STYLE IN GEEMANY.
Book V.
west is a triple frontispiece, ancl to the east (woodcut No. 615) the
three apses, which form so favourite an arrangement with the Germans.
Externally its attenuation is painful to one accustomed to the soherer
work of Erench archi-
tects; but this fault is
not here carried to any-
thing like the excess
found inotherchurches.
Internally the effect
is certainly pleasing,
and altogether there are
perhaps few hetter spe-
cimens of purely Ger-
man design in pointed
architecture. The
church of St. Blasius,
in the sanie town, is far
from being so good an
example of the style.
The cathedral at Er-
fui'th is a highly orna-
mexited building, but,
though possessingbeau-
tiful details in parts,
yet shows the slen-
derness of construction
which is so frequent a
fault in German Gothic
buildings. The church
of St. Severus in the
same town resembles
that at Mxxhlhausen,
bxxt possesses so cha-
racteristic a group of
three spires1 over what
we would consider the
transept — or jxxst in
froixt of tlie apse —•
that it is illxxstrated
(woodcut No. 616).
It certainly looks like
a direct lineal descend-
ant from the old Bo-
man basilican apse grown into Gothic tallness. Though common in
Germany, placed either here or at the west front, I do not know
G16. St. Severus Church at Erfurth. From PattrHb, DenkmSter.
1 I he fafade dosigned for the cathedral at. nxent, though on a much larger scale, and
Louvain (mentioned at page 725) was iden- infinitely richer in ornament.
tical with this group of spires in arrange-
POINTED STYLE IN GEEMANY.
Book V.
west is a triple frontispiece, ancl to the east (woodcut No. 615) the
three apses, which form so favourite an arrangement with the Germans.
Externally its attenuation is painful to one accustomed to the soherer
work of Erench archi-
tects; but this fault is
not here carried to any-
thing like the excess
found inotherchurches.
Internally the effect
is certainly pleasing,
and altogether there are
perhaps few hetter spe-
cimens of purely Ger-
man design in pointed
architecture. The
church of St. Blasius,
in the sanie town, is far
from being so good an
example of the style.
The cathedral at Er-
fui'th is a highly orna-
mexited building, but,
though possessingbeau-
tiful details in parts,
yet shows the slen-
derness of construction
which is so frequent a
fault in German Gothic
buildings. The church
of St. Severus in the
same town resembles
that at Mxxhlhausen,
bxxt possesses so cha-
racteristic a group of
three spires1 over what
we would consider the
transept — or jxxst in
froixt of tlie apse —•
that it is illxxstrated
(woodcut No. 616).
It certainly looks like
a direct lineal descend-
ant from the old Bo-
man basilican apse grown into Gothic tallness. Though common in
Germany, placed either here or at the west front, I do not know
G16. St. Severus Church at Erfurth. From PattrHb, DenkmSter.
1 I he fafade dosigned for the cathedral at. nxent, though on a much larger scale, and
Louvain (mentioned at page 725) was iden- infinitely richer in ornament.
tical with this group of spires in arrange-