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Rh Bk. IV. Ch. III. NIMEGUEN. 3W from the basilica, which in Italy usually accompanied the circular church ; but whether it did so or not in this instance can only be ascertained when the spot and its annals are far more carefully examined than has hitlierto been the case. The church at Nimeguen is even less known than this one ; Ave have no tradition as to who its builder was,' nor whose tomb it was erected to contain. From the half-section, half-elevation (Woodcut No. 490 1), it will be seen that it is extremely similar to the one just described, both in plan and elevation, but evidently of a somewhat more modern date, having scarcely a trace of the Romanesque style. It wants, too, the fayade which usually adorned churches of that age : but it seems so unaltered from its original arrangement that it is well worthy of more attention than it has hitherto received. 4 to Church at Nimeguen (From Schayes.) No Scale. Of the church of Otho the Great at Magdeburg, we know nothing but from a model in stone, about 12 ft. in diameter, still existing in the present cathedral, and containing sitting effigies of Otho and his English Edith, who were buried in the original edifice. The model, unfortunately, was made in the 13th century, when the original was burnt down; and as the artists in that day were singularly bad copyists, we cannot depend much on the resemblance. It appears, howevei-, to have been a ]iolygon of sixteen sides externally, like the two just mentioned ; and if it is correct to assume, as was generally the case, that the choir of the present cathedral was built on the ^ Taken from Schayes' " Histoire de 1' Architecture en Belgique," vol. ii. p. 18, taken by him, I believe, from Lassaultx.