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Rh Ek. IV. Ch. III. COBERX— ALTENFURT. 4ij There is, besides these, a circular chapel of uncertain date at Altenfurt, near Nuremberg, and there are many others at Prasfue and in various parts of Germany, but none remarkable either for their histoi-ical oi* for their artistic importance. Tliis form went out of use before the style we are describing reached Its acme ; and it had not therefore a fair chance of receiving th.at elaboration which was necessary for the development of its capa- bilities. A little farther on we shall have occasion again to take lip the subject of cir- cular churches when speak- ing of those of Scandinavia, where the circular form pre- vailed to a great extent in the early ages of Christian- ity in that country ; never, however, as a baptistery or a tomb-house, but always as a kirk — or cirque. It was afterwards introduced by in Chapel at Cobern on the Moselle. (From Wiebeking.) No scale. the Danes into Norfolk and Suffolk, but there still farther modified, becoming only a western round tower, instead of a circular nave. I