Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Plate LXXX VIII
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1 1 ^^^^K^rifi^ fTl TTIB^ 1 S*! \if \ > * ^^B 4. 1 ! * \ * MAINZ CATHEDRAL. N.E. view CH. xviii) GERMAN ROMANESQUE 15 windows. The towers are square, and slender, and areset in each case clear of the transept against its easternside. They are panelled in the Lombard way. The splendid cathedral of Mainz (Plate LXXXVIII) Mainzwas re-built and re-consecrated between 1037 and 1049 and ^^^*^^^again restored after a fire between 1056 and 1106. Thenave was vaulted with pointed arches by ArchbishopConrad, probably after the fire of 1190. Though not so badly treated by the French as Speyer,the cathedral during the Napoleonic wars went throughmany vicissitudes, and was used at one time as a haymagazine, and at another as a slaughter house. It hastwo apses, two transepts and six towers, that over thewestern crossing having been re-constructed, according to the guide books, with cast-iron by M oiler of Darmstadt,the architect who restored the church after its desecration.The domes are octagonal

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