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CH. xvin] GERMAN ROMANESQUE 19details are very plain, there is no carving, there are Cologne,cushion capitals everywhere ;the columns of the apsesare cylindrical, and have stilted Attic bases : the navepiers are plain rectangles with an impost mouldinginstead of a capital: there is no triforium but a blankwall with round-headed clerestory windows above.Thenave has later Gothic vaulting on shafts that have beenadded and are corbelled out above the nave piers.Over the crossingis a dome, which is not circular but The domerather a square with the corners rounded off so that theCOLOtM.S-MMIAFig. 71-pendentives are small ;but otherwise it is a real dome ofthe Byzantine kind. There is a smaller oblong domeover a narrow bay eastwards before the semi-dome of theeastern apse.The transepts have barrel vaults withtransverse ribs, and semi-domes over the apses.The aisles are cross-vaulted with transverse ribs butno diagonals.At the west end is a narthex or porch aswide as the nave alone, to which itopens with a triplearch, and there is a galleryover it with a triple arch ofthe same kind.22