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Rh bk. IV. cii. ir. TRi:VES. 15 encased in the walls of the present basilica to enable us to determine its size and plan with very tolerable accuracy. The plan of it in the woodcut 46::. Western Apse of Church at Treves. (From Sohniidt.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in. (No. 460) is taken from Schmidt's most valuable work on the Antiquities of Treves. The atrium has been added by myself, because it was an almost universal feature in churches of the date in which this was erected, and because there is every reason to be- lieve that the present church occupied as nearly as possible the exact site of the older one, and is of the same dimensions. The circular church is re- stored from the Roman exam- ples of the same age( woodcuts 226, and 294 to 307). From their relative positions it will be seen how indispensable the atrium must have been. This Romanesque church seems to have remained pretty much in its original state till the beginning of the 11th century, when the Archbishop Poppo found it so ruinous 463. Eastern Apse of Church at Treves. (Prom Schmidt.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.