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The church itself, then, shows several phases of construction and repair, and is as good an illustration as any of Thayer's Axiom: the larger the stones, the older the stonework. Here you see the largest stones — for the most part not sandstone like the rest of the building, but assorted limestones — in the foreground,
at the base of the façade: if these stones are not all the remains of an actual predecessor building from classical Antiquity on this spot, at least
some of them
almost certainly are Roman. (Scale: that blue pen is exactly 14 cm long).
High up on the façade, similarly salvaged — no point in throwing away good stone — a very old fragment of carving, probably from the first church on this spot:
Walking thru the archway and around the corner,
The S flank of the church: notice that the nave of the church seems to have been felt worthy of more sustained maintenance, in which the soft erodable sandstone blocks have been protected by mortar, making also for a smoother wall. |
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