166 ARCHITECTURE. 
in 1207, nothing remaining but the walls of the high choir, which were 
made use of in the re-edification which had commenced already in 1208, 
after the designs of the architect Bohnensack. P41. 41, fig. 13, represents its 
ground plan, jig. 14 gives a front view of the edifice from the north-west 
side. It is in the purest German pointed-arch style. It was finished in 
little over 150 years, being consecrated in the year 1363. Its length in the 
clear is 288 feet. The vaults of the main nave, which rest on 22 columns 
connected by pointed arches, are 106 feet high, those of the side aisles 30 
feet 8 inches. The choir contains several statues and porphyry columns 
said to have been sent from Italy, and to have belonged to the old building. 
The church is one of the finest edifices in northern Germany, and of high 
value for the study of the architecture of the middle ages, being one of the 
few works of those times that are entirely finished. It suffered to some 
extent during the several sieges of Magdeburg in the Thirty Years’ War, 
when especially the southern spire lost its crowning flower and suffered 
considerable damage to its terior decoration. In the year 1826 it was 
repaired by order of the King of Prussia, strictly in the style of the first 
design, and the church has now a noble appearance both exteriorly and 
interiorly. The facade of the towers, with the magnificent portal between 
them, is admirably composed. The fore hall contains the bronze monument 
to Archbishop Ernest of Magdeburg, cast by Peter Vischer of Nurnberg, 
when the archbishop was still in life. At the beginning of the northern 
cross-arm is a remarkable parabolic vault with borizontal joints, constructed 
very much like the treasury of Atreus in Mycene (p. 34 and pil. 8, jig. 8). 
In the transept is a beautiful chapel forming half a dodecagon, whose flat 
ceiling rests on perforated girt arches. 
6. Tae Caurca or St. Micnarn anp St. Guputa my BrussELts was com- 
menced in 1047 and enlarged in 1295. It is built throughout in the purest 
German style. Pl. 37, jig. 23, gives the western view of the church. It 
has three portals leading into the three aisles, the central one of which is 
130 feet high and 34 feet wide, its vaults resting on 12 round columns four 
feet in diameter, in front of which stand the statues of the twelve apostles. 
The side aisles are 50 feet high and 20 feet 6 inches wide, ineluding the 
chapels. The choir is about 86 feet high and lined with round columns. 
Over the intersection of the nave and transept is a pointed wooden spire. 
The upper walls of the main nave rest on the pointed arches that connect 
the columns, and are secured from without by double rows of ascending 
arches, sprung from the outer buttresses over the side aisles. The choir has 
no such ascending arches, being much lower than the nave. The choir is 
ornamented by ten broad windows, more than 50 feet high, and decorated 
with highly finished glass-paintings. It has also 20 attached chapels. 
The interior of the church is magnificent. The main front, however, is 
incomplete, the towers having been left without their spires, and although 
of the same height, both unfinished at the top. 
7. Taz CaTHepraL or Antwerp (pl. 37, jig. 24, western view) was first 
built in the 13th century, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was 
destroyed by a conflagration, only the choir and the facade of the towers 
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