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POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY.

Part II.

CHAPTEE VI.

CONTBNTS.

Circular Churches—Cliurcli Furniture—Civil Arcliitecture.

ClRCÜLAR ClIURCHES.

In adopting the pointecl style, the

761. Anna Chapel at Heiligenstadt. (From
Puttrich, ‘ Denkmâler.’)

Germans almost wholly abandoned
their olcl favourite circular form ;
the Liebfrauen Church at Trèves
(WoodcutNo. 695) beingalmostthe
only really important example of
a church in the style approaching
to a rotuncla. Chapter-houses are
as rare in Germany as in France,
and those that are found are not
generally circular in either coun-
try. There is a baptistery attached
to the cathedral at Meissen, and
one or two other insignificant ex-
amples elsewhere ; but the most
pleasing object of this class is the
Anna Chapel, attached to the
principal church at Heiligenstadt.
It is saicl that it always was
cleclicated to the sainted mother of
the Yirgin, but it would require
more than traclition to prove that
it was not originally clesigned as
a baptistery or a tomb-house. Be
this as it may, it is one of the
most pleasing specimens of its
class anywhere to be found, and
so elegant as to make us regret
the rarity of such structures.

Church Furniture.

The cliurches of Germany are not generally rich in architectural
furniture. Few rood-lofts are found spanning from pillar to pillar of
the choir like that at the Madeleine of Troyes (Woodcut No. 669) ;