The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-20
THE ROMANESQUE.
DIR. Dewhurst Continues His Lectures
on Architecture-GOthi Next.


b. Plymouth Church was crowded last night
on the occasion of the fortnightly lecture
by Rev. +. f. Dewhurst on the subject of
architecture" illustrated by the stereop-
ticon. The special branch OF architecture
TO which the dissertation was confined was
the Romanesque. This type of artecture,
Mr.. Dewhurst said cannot be so specifically
located or described as the Moorish archi-
lecture which is the architecture OF re-
ligion, or OF the Greek. which was OF
racial type. The Romanesque is as il name
implies, like the Roman. The term. he said,
is used in varying eXpanse of meaning by
different writer's. Its chief feature is the
rounded arch. 1t takes its name from the
new conditions that invested the civilized
world at the time it first came into use.
1t is an initiative style, he said, not
original style, and was simply new use
of old ideas and forms When the En-
peror Constantine established liberty of con-
science to the Christian converts, the
Christian population of Rome came out
from their hiding places and found that
the Roman temples were readily adapted
to their for worship. The lecture
opened with a picture of the Basiica, the
old Roman court of justice, which used
by the first Christians, and found TO be well
adapted to the Christian service. 1t had
central nave. or hallway. approaching
the apse, recess. in the remote end wall
where the Justice was wont 10 sit, and there
was also "A table there which served we'll
as an altar The nave was bordered on
either side with long line OF Doric columns
with ornamentation above, and covered with
a raised roof providing clear stone with
windows for light. There were two rows
of columns on the outside OF these, making
the nave.
The arches were of the semicircular
pattern The lecturer proceeded then TO
a
architecture 10 the cathedral at Worms,
which standing when Luther posted
his thesis. This has two tall towers at each
end. The tower in architecture, said Mr..
Dewhurst is a development of the need
of bell 10 summon a people TO church who
could not read, and whose possessions did
not include a chronometer. They were peo-
ple who had TO commit the responses 10
memory in order TO be able TO take part in
the service. But. nowadays, said the lee
turer, we do not need bells, but rather 90
10 church TO the changing OF the street car
achievements of modern times no longer
require a bell whose musical tones nave
so long sounded upon the air at the hour OF
the Sunday morning service, in the memory
of most persons now living. The views in
Guided the chapel in the tower Of London
the exterior of this historical building. the
interior and exterior of St Peters the SScat
monument of Michael Angeles genius, the
doorway Of st. Marks, In Venice 1t. Paul 5
church. in London: St. Madeline's. i'm Paris
the Alcazar in Spain, and the Grand opera
House in Paris. The Romanesque was con-
trasted with the Byzantine style of archi-
lecture and also with the architecture or
the Renaissance which seemed TO create
an atmosphere of aspiration and longing.
as distinguished from the perfect and COM
plete, illustrated In the Grecian.
The next discourse in this course VIII De
upon the subject of the Gothic architec-