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SCANDINAVIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Part II.

Others it is small, being only 180 ft. long by 80 in widtli. It is the only church now used for divine service, the remainder being in ruins. One of the most remarkable churches in Wisby is that of the Holy Anders, founded originally, it is said, in 1046. It is one of those double or two-storied chui ^hes so common in some j^arts of Ger- many, but which in this instance displays peculiarities not found elsewhere. <iis->V^

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551. Portal, Sandeo Church, Gothland. (From Marryat's " One Year in Sweden.") The nave is an octagon about 52 ft. east and west. A square space in the centre is bounded by four stout jullars, between v/hich the vault of the lower story is. omitted, so as to leave an opening into the u]^per story. Four pillars of slender design support the vault of the upper church, and the whole, with the roof, rises to about 100 ft. To the eastward is a choir, externally a rectangle, 32 ft. by 25, but internally semi-circular at the eastern end. The church most like this in Germany is perliaps that at Schwartz Rheindorf (Woodcut Nos. 483 and 484). It also resembles the chapel at Landsberg (Woodcut No. 485); but the most extended, and indeed