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by the exquisite taste with which the interior decorations have been intro- 
duced at a later period. 
St. Castor’s church, in Coblentz (pl. 28, jig. 17), was founded in the 10th 
century, in the ere” style. In 1888 the choir was added in the 
German style. The church proper is divided into three naves. The central 
one is 30 feet wide from centre to centre of the pillars, and had originally 
a wooden ceiling. The cross-vault ceiling was not introduced before 1298. 
The side aisles are only 13 feet wide, and have cross-vault ceilings of porous 
tufa. The length of the centre nave in the clear is 148 feet ; its height, to 
the keystone, 39 feet. At the sides of the lower end of the choir are two 
old towers, 95 feet high. 
A very interesting building is the hall of the Abbey of Leas in Hesse- 
Darmstadt (pl. 33, fig. 11, plan; jig. 12, elevation; jig. 13, joaetentiieed 
section; jig. 14, eaptal of ine interior cohen jig. 15, apie and base of 
the exterior columns ; jig. 16, details from the pilasters in the upper story ; 
jig. 17, main cornice; jig. 18, middle cornice; jig. 19, impost cornice ; 
jig. 20, ornament of the inner arch). 
This hall formed the entrance to the court of the abbey which was 
destroyed by fire in 1090. It is now used as a chapel. It is 33 feet long, 
24 feet broad, and 25 feet high, and has two stories. The lower story has 
on both sides (east and west) arcades of three round arches, with two 
columns between them and two at the ends. These columns have Ionic 
bases, and capitals resembling very much the ancient Composite order. The 
acanthus leaves are rather rudely wrought. On the capitals are square 
slabs. ‘The middle cornice resting on these pillars has foliated decoration 
and a pearl moulding which strongly remind us of the cornices of the 
ancients. Its upper socle is a little inclined to produce a boldly marked 
shade. The front of the upper story has ten finted pilasters supporting 
nine isosceles archivolts, forming pediment shaped ornaments. These orna- 
ments never occur in the South of Europe, but are frequent in England, 
being among the characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon style of architecture. 
The capitals of the pilasters are formed by two rows of eggs and two 
volutes. They are a clumsy imitation of the Ionic capital. All the cornices, 
columns, and pilasters are of hard, white freestone; the walls are inlaid 
with lozenge-shaped plates of red and white marble. The windows in the 
second story, which are round-arched, cannot have been made at the same 
time with the rest of the building, but must have been added when it was 
arranged for a chapel. At the same time, probably, the eastern arches were 
closed and the altar placed against the wall, with two columns and an arch 
as decoration. The round tower at the southern end of the hall is of more 
recent date, and was evidently only built in order to place in it the staircase 
leading to the tribune in the interior of the hall. 
The Abbey of Lorsch was founded in 764, under Pipin, by the Benedic- 
tine abbot, Gundeland, and was consecrated in 774, in presence of Charle- 
magne, his consort Hildegarda, and his sons Charles and Pipin. The style 
in which the hall is built corresponds perfectly with this minute in the 
chronicles of Lorsch. It is therefore greatly surprising that the distin- 
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