facing 332

General View of Utrecht facing 340

Round Church in the IXth Century, Aix-la-Chapelle
(diagram) 347

St. Genevieve, Andernach (diagram) 348

Bonn Cathedral (diagram) 349

St. Castor, Coblenz (diagram) 350

Ancient Cathedral, Cologne (diagram) 351

Present Cathedral, Cologne (diagram) 351

St. Maria in Capitolia, Cologne (diagram) 352

St. Cunibert's, Cologne (diagram) 352

St. Martin's, Cologne (diagram) 353

Church of the Apostles, Cologne (diagram) 353

St. Gereon's, Cologne (diagram) 353

Crypt, St. Gereon's, Cologne (diagram) 353

Constance Cathedral (diagram) 354

Freiburg Cathedral (diagram) 355

Abbey of Laach (diagram) 356

Mayence Cathedral (diagram) 358

Gothard Chapel, Mayence (diagram) 358

Abbey Church, Muenchen-Gladbach (diagram) 359

St. Quirinus, Neuss (diagram) 359

Schaffhausen Cathedral (diagram) 360

Speyer Cathedral (diagram) 360

Treves Cathedral (diagram) 361

St. Martin, Worms (diagram) 362

APOLOGIA

_The Rhine provinces stand for all that is best and most characteristic
of the ecclesiastical architecture of Germany, as contrasted with that
very distinct species known as French pointed or Gothic._

_For this reason the present volume of the series, which follows the
Cathedrals of Northern and Southern France, deals with a class of
ecclesiastical architecture entirely different from the light,
flamboyant style which has made so many of the great cathedral churches
of France preeminently famous._

_Save Cologne, there is no great cathedral, either in Germany or the Low
Countries, which in any way rivals the masterpieces of Paris, Reims, or
Amiens, or even Lincoln or York in England._

_Strasburg and Metz are in a way reminiscent of much that is French, but
in the main the cathedrals and churches of the Rhine are of a species
distinct and complete in itself._

_Any consideration of the Rhine cities and towns, and the ecclesiastical