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Rh evidence of any new growth out of the borrowed forms; but just as in England some of the features of French art, modified by Anglo-Norman taste, were ingrafted upon the Norman-Romanesque without materially changing its structural character, so in Germany were the same features, modified by local taste, ingrafted upon the Romanesque of the country with little change in its structural character,—an instance like that of Cologne, where a structural system,

FIG. 97.

radically different from the native one, is fully carried out, being exceptional.

One class of church buildings is, however, peculiar to Germany—that, namely, in which the three aisles are carried up to an equal height, as in the Kreuzkirche at Breslau just mentioned. Of this class are the Church of St. Elizabeth at Marburg, St. Sebaldus at Nuremberg, St. Mary at Mühlhausen, and others. It would be difficult to produce a more ill-proportioned figure than the cross section (Fig. 97) of such a building presents. The only parallel to it is, I believe, that which is afforded by the grouping of the west portals of the Cathedral