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Rh Bk. VII. Ch. II. MORESCO STYLE. 281 in this style, and most beautiful and elaborate specimens of theii class. Very pleasing examples of the adaptation of Moorish art to Chris- tian purposes are to be found in various churches throughout Spain. That of St. Roman at Toledo^ is a very pleasing and pure example of the style, but neither so picturesque nor so characteristic as that at Ilescas (Woodcut No, 725), not far from Madrid, which, though differing essentially from any Gothic stee- ple, is still in every part appropriately de- signed, and, notwith- standing its strongly marked horizontal lines, by no means deficient in that aspiring character so admirable in Gothic steeples. Another remarkable example is the tower and roof of the church of St. Paul, Saragoza. It is so unlike any- thing else in Europe, til at it might pass for a cliurch in the Crimea or the steppes of Tar- tary. As if to add to its foreign aspect, the tiles of the roof are colored and glazed, thus render 726. St. Paul, Saragoza. (From Villa Amil.) ing the contrast with Gothic art stronger than even that presented in the details and forms of the architecture. The church of St. Thome at Toledo has a tower so perfectly Moorish in all its details that but for its form it might as well be classed among the specimens of Moorish as of Mozarabic architecture. Throughout Spain there are many of the same class, which were un- doubtedly erected by the Christians. Both in this country and in 1 An engraving of this tower is given in Street's " Gothic Architecture in Spain," page 225, accompanied with, a very complete enumeration of all the examples of the style to be found in Toledo.