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Rh Bk. V. Ch. I. ROUND CHUECHES. 115 ever, are singularly ill-suited for defensive purposes — as war was understood when the church was built — and look much more like the rudiments of an apsidal gallery, as seen at Lund, and so commonly introduced on the Rhine shortly after this period. In Gothland there are several examples of round churches, the most typical being that at Hagby (Woodcut No. 557) ; though it is not so picturesque as the two last quoted, it differs in reality very little from 559. Liiderbro Cliiirch and Wapenhus, Gothland. (From Marryat's "One Year in Sweden.") them, showing a permanence and consistency of type throughout the whole province where they are found ; the only changes being such as arise from its being more modern, and the four pillars being omitted from the interior. So slight indeed are the differences that it is hardly worth while to point them out, more especially as they are not in themselves objects of much beauty ; nor were they afterwards devel- oped in the country where they are found into forms possessing much architectural significance.