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258 258 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. of the dome is perfect. The windows are alternately of three and four lights, and the whole is fitted together with exquisite pro- priety and taste. Although borrowing their style in the first instance im- mediately from the French, the Spaniards developed it with such a variety of plans and details, as might have made it a style of their own but for the fresh importation of French designs in the beginning of the 13th cen- tury. Before these came in, however, they had very fre- quently in their churches adopted a form of external portico which was singularly suited to the climate and produced very original and pleasing effects. In the an- nexed plan of St. Millan at Segovia (Woodcut No. 701), they form fourth and fifth aisles opening externally in- stead of internally ; these, with the windows over them, and the shadoAV they afford, break up the monotony of the sides of the church most 700. Section of Cimborio at Salamanca. (From " Mon. Arch. d'Esiiana.") No scale. ^^iF^-'V^ 701. St. Millan, Segovia. (From Gailhabaud.) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 702. Cliurcli of the Templars at SegoTia.. Ko scale.