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Chap. I.
TORO—SEG-OYIA.
823
St. Millan, Segovia. From
Gailhabaud.
Scale 300 ft. to X in.
in a manner more pictnresque than beantiful. Externally, these pecu-
liarities are better shown in the Collegiate Chnrch at Toro (woodcut
No. 660), which displays the rich lateral doorway of this age, and
introduces us to the tower-like domes (cimbcnio), half Moorish, half
G-othic, which are so characteristic of the style.
All these churches, and as far as descriptions are intelligible,
almost all those erected before the 13th century, had their principal
entrances at the side; and if they had not the double apse of the Ger-
mans, they had at least sometimes a tomb or baptistery at their west
ends. If this was the general rule, as appears
to have been the case, it is easy to understand
how the Spaniards came to separate the choir
from the high altar, and make the lateral en-
trances into it as they did.
The plans of two other churches have
recently been published in France by M.
Gailhabaud; one, that of St. Millan (woodcut
No. 661), served originally as cathedral for
Segovia before thebuilding of the present one,
commenced in 1525. Though small, it is inte-
resting for the peculiarities of its structure,
having no windows but those at the west end,
and some very small ones at the east. It
must have been a very dark and gloomy
edifice even without painted glass, and in the bright climate of Spain.
It possesses lateral galleries,
common in this part of Spain,
and found also in Germany.
These are no doubt the
lineal descendants of the
peristyles of the Eomans,
and the precursors of the
cloisters -— or peristyles
turned inwards—that super-
seded them everywhere.
The other is a circular
church of the Templars, one
of the few of that form
found in Spain, copied no
doubt frorn the church of
the Holy Sepulchre at Jeru-
salem. Though its date is
1204, it hardly shows a trace
of the pointed arch inter-
nally. Its doorway is pointed
and ornamented with the
billetmoulcling,whichwould ... .T
° . 662. Church of the remplars at Segovia. No scale.
date fifty years earlier m
Engiand, and nearly a century
before that period in France. Its
TORO—SEG-OYIA.
823
St. Millan, Segovia. From
Gailhabaud.
Scale 300 ft. to X in.
in a manner more pictnresque than beantiful. Externally, these pecu-
liarities are better shown in the Collegiate Chnrch at Toro (woodcut
No. 660), which displays the rich lateral doorway of this age, and
introduces us to the tower-like domes (cimbcnio), half Moorish, half
G-othic, which are so characteristic of the style.
All these churches, and as far as descriptions are intelligible,
almost all those erected before the 13th century, had their principal
entrances at the side; and if they had not the double apse of the Ger-
mans, they had at least sometimes a tomb or baptistery at their west
ends. If this was the general rule, as appears
to have been the case, it is easy to understand
how the Spaniards came to separate the choir
from the high altar, and make the lateral en-
trances into it as they did.
The plans of two other churches have
recently been published in France by M.
Gailhabaud; one, that of St. Millan (woodcut
No. 661), served originally as cathedral for
Segovia before thebuilding of the present one,
commenced in 1525. Though small, it is inte-
resting for the peculiarities of its structure,
having no windows but those at the west end,
and some very small ones at the east. It
must have been a very dark and gloomy
edifice even without painted glass, and in the bright climate of Spain.
It possesses lateral galleries,
common in this part of Spain,
and found also in Germany.
These are no doubt the
lineal descendants of the
peristyles of the Eomans,
and the precursors of the
cloisters -— or peristyles
turned inwards—that super-
seded them everywhere.
The other is a circular
church of the Templars, one
of the few of that form
found in Spain, copied no
doubt frorn the church of
the Holy Sepulchre at Jeru-
salem. Though its date is
1204, it hardly shows a trace
of the pointed arch inter-
nally. Its doorway is pointed
and ornamented with the
billetmoulcling,whichwould ... .T
° . 662. Church of the remplars at Segovia. No scale.
date fifty years earlier m
Engiand, and nearly a century
before that period in France. Its