. Architecture for general students. s greatly in construction. In Italy we some-times find columns or half columns taking the placeof the pilasters, and the intrados of the arcadesrichly wrought in leaf forms or mouldings. In Ger-many and France mouldings are most frequent, andthey are wrought out in every variety of detail ; butsometimes the frieze is merely indicated by pro-jecting one or more rows of bricks from the wallsurface. Another frieze is sometimes added abovethis and below the roof-cornice. The chess-boardpattern, consisting of severalrows of stones alternately ele-vated and depre

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. Architecture for general students. s greatly in construction. In Italy we some-times find columns or half columns taking the placeof the pilasters, and the intrados of the arcadesrichly wrought in leaf forms or mouldings. In Ger-many and France mouldings are most frequent, andthey are wrought out in every variety of detail ; butsometimes the frieze is merely indicated by pro-jecting one or more rows of bricks from the wallsurface. Another frieze is sometimes added abovethis and below the roof-cornice. The chess-boardpattern, consisting of severalrows of stones alternately ele-vated and depressed, or a rowof rectangular blocks placeddiagonally, are the favorite formsfor this frieze, although roundmouldings are not unfrequentlyemployed. When consoles areadded, they are not of the antique forms, but arerather square and solid. In the faQade we find the side-aisles supportinglofty towers, which were ornamented, like the walls, with lisenes and arch-friezes. The main portal, oc-cupying the centre of the fagade, and no longer. Consoles. 136 A rch itectitre, overshadowed by the atrium, is one of the peculiarfeatures of this edifice. Built out from the fagade, its walls form deep angles, and these side walls arecovered by slender columns sometimes forming twostories, and sometimes continued to the arch above, but divided by projecting bands. A straight beamor lintel is inserted above, so as to set off thearched part of the doorway and form a circulartympanum. Here was displayed, especially in Ger-many, the best specimens of mediaeval sculpture, thesubjects being Christ enthroned among saints andangels, the Last Judgment, or something of similarimport. The columnar ornament was continuedalong the arch above, and this whole frame-workwas covered with linear and flower designs wrousfht into every conceivable varietyof form and combination.The fagade was further en-riched by the wheel-window, a circular window in whichthe sashes, frequently calledcusps, radiate from the centre Wh