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if to add to its foreign aspect, the tiles of the roof are coloured and
glazed, thus rendering the contrast with Gothic art stronger than even
that presented in the details and forms of the architecture.

The Church of St. Thomé at Toledo has a tower so perfectly
Moorish in all its details, that but for its form it might as well be
classed among the specimens of Moorish as of Mozarabic architecture.


962. St. Paul, Saragoza. (From Villa Âmil.)

Throughout Spain there are many of the same class, which were un-
doubtedly erected by the Christians. Both in this country and in
Sicily it is never safe to assume that because the style of a building
is Moorish, even purely so, the structure must belong to the time when
the Moors possessed the country, or to a happy interval, if any such
existed, when a more than usually tolerant reign permitted them
to erect edifices for themselves under the rule of their Christian

conquerors.