[77] I need not say, to those who know the north of Germany, that the arrangement of this church is, after all, only an exaggeration of a not uncommon plan. The cathedrals at Hildesheim and Naumburg, the Liebfrauen-Kirche at Halberstadt, and many others, have crypts, whose floor is but little lower than the floor of the church, whilst the floors of their choirs are raised immensely, and so shut in with solid stone screens and parcloses, that little can be seen of them from the naves. The crypt at Wimborne Minster is a rare instance of the same kind of thing in England; but this is a middle-pointed contrivance for _creating_ a crypt in a first-pointed church, which was never intended to have anything of the kind. [78] It is owing to this arrangement of the nave, and the consequent uselessness of the aisles, that several of the old altars still remain, one in each bay, against the north aisle wall, and one or two against the south aisle wall. [79] I have given a drawing of these candlesticks for the _Instrumenta Ecclesiastica_. They are not movable candlesticks, but regular fixtures to the pavement, and made in some kind of white metal. [80] I have given a drawing of this vat in the _Instrumenta Ecclesiastica_. [81] It must be understood that these are not the original curtains; but that the Lutherans have here preserved an old arrangement is very evident. [82] On the south side of this steeple still hang the iron cages in which John of Leyden and his confrères were suspended before their execution. [83] This paper was read before the Oxford Architectural Society, in 1857.--G. G. K. [84] Street was not yet familiar with the Spanish churches, in which it is the dominant native form. Cf. _Gothic Architecture in Spain_, new edition, I, 58.--G. G. K. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Inconsistencies between the Index and the text it referenced were resolved by changing the Index to match the text. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. In Footnote 3, the symbol following “openings of this kind” is a Maltese Cross. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of George Edmund Street Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers, by George Edmund Street and Georgiana Goddard King