THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



43' 



where by builders of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries, and has shown what 

 picturesque uses may be made of vari-coloured bricks, even without the terra-cotta 

 decorations which enrich 

 the surface of the struc- 

 tures referred to. The 

 core of the edifice, which 

 is amphitheatrical in its 

 internal arrangement, is 

 enclosed on three sides 

 by a two-storeyed cloister 

 or corridor, which equal- 

 izes the temperature with- 

 in, and has been rendered 

 externally effective by the 

 employment of open and 



SWANSTON STREET, LOOKING NORTH. 



of glazed arcades. At the south-west angle of the church a campanile rises to a height 

 of one hundred and fifty feet, with a triple-arched loggia at the summit of the shaft, 



