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2O GERMAN ROMANESQUE [CH. xvnicologne. The crypt extends under both choir and transepts.It has cylindrical tapered columns with cushion capitals,the central column under the apse however is a quatrefoilin plan.The vault is cross-groinedwith flat transverseribs and no diagonals,the arris of the diagonal groinbeing pinched up,At Great S. Martin (1172) and SS. Aposteln (1193)the triple apses have no aisles, a manifest improvementon S. Maria in Capitolio.The former of thesechurches with itsmagnificentgalleried apses forms a prominentcentral tower and itsfeature in the riverfront of the town, and has the finest exterior of anythingin Cologne.In the interior there is a triforium withpointed arches above a round arched arcade, and exceptthe barrel vault of the transepts and the semi-dome of theANDERNACHapse, the vaults are Gothic.The Romanesque churches of Coblentz and Andernachwere built early in the I3th century.(Plate XCIII) has four towers, two at each end, and noIttransepts. has three apses at the east end for choirand aisles, the central one arcaded inside with nichedrecesses below a range of large round-headed windows.There is a triforium as large as the arcade below, of twolights under an including arch, divided by rather slendercoupled shafts. The nave is four bays long to eight ofthe aisle, the western bay being occupied by a gallery.The nave piers are square with an impost moulding andno capital.The eastern towers have pyramidal roofs ;The the western, the German gabled spire which is so constantgabST a feature of the style. It is formed by gablingall foursplresides of the tower, and setting a square spire of timberand slate diagonally on the points of the gables instead ofdirectly on the angles of the tower. The spire is completed