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256 256 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. both internally and externally, and gives great dignity to what otherwise would be a very plain building. Without going beyond the limits of the style, the dome at Tarragona (Woodcut No. 703) illustrates the form usually taken by 698. San Vincente, Avila. Interior of Western Porch. (From Street.) Gothic domes when resting on square bases. There is a little aAvkwardness in the form of the pendentives, which do not fit the main arches below them, though at that age the Spaniards might have learned from the Saracens how to manage this feature. At