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44 44 DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. Part IT. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. CONTENTS. Lorsch — Palaces on the Wartburg — Gelnhausen — Houses — Windows. AS might be expected, the remains of domestic architecture are few and insignificant as compared with those of the great monu- mental churches which in that age were the buildings par excellence on which the wealth, the talent, and the energy of the nation were so profusely lavished. The earliest building which has been brought to light is certainly the portal of the Convent at Lorsch, near Mannheim. It is now used as a store, and has been a good deal defaced ; but sufficient remains, not only to show its form, but the character of its details. These are 496. Porch of Convent at I.orsch. (From Moller's " Denkmaler," etc.) No scale. SO classical as to justify us in calling the building Romanesque; and if it were not that we have liuildings — such, for instance, as St. Paul aux Trois Chateaux (Woodcut No. 317), which may date in the 10th and 11th century — we might be inclined to assert most confidently that the date of this building must approximate nearly to the time of the de]»arture of the Romans. On the other hand, the purely classical details of such buildings as those found in Provence must render Uo