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evolved which shall satisfy all the requirements drawn 

 out in the earlier part of this chapter. This we will 

 endeavour shortly to show ; but first it may be useful 

 to notice some of the old more or less perfectly Roman- 

 esque churches, which may serve, not as models, but as 

 objects of study, full of fruitful suggestions. 



Foremost amongst these may perhaps be cited S. 

 Cunibert's at Cologne, which, although finished in the 

 same year in which the cathedral was begun, neverthe- 

 less exhibits the pointed arch only here and there. It 

 consists of a nave and aisles with clerestory, an apsidal 

 choir, having on each side a tower. At the west end 

 is a lofty transept, somewhat as in our old college 

 chapels, as e.g., at Magdalen College, Oxford. 



Again, the Apostles' Church, with its three apsides, 

 and that of S. Martin's, with its short sanctuary, so 

 suitable for modern worship, as well as the grand old 

 church of Andernach and the Abbey of Maria Laach, 

 should be carefully studied. The lovely fragment still 

 left of the abbey church of Heisterbach may be re- 

 ferred to as an example of the lightness and elegance 

 attained to in the transition period, as the cathedral 

 of Maintz, and that, before referred to, of Speyer, may 

 be quoted as examples of the majestic solidity of the 

 earlier Romanesque. 



S. Gereon's church at Cologne shows how fine an 

 effect might be produced by the addition of the dome 



