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baptistery at, 238, 239, 249, 259; church of SS. Nesario and Celso, 242.

Recessed orders, ii. 37, 75-77, 101.

Regulus, St., at St. Andrews, church of, ii. 24.

Religion, influence of, on architecture, i. 9, 49.

Remigius, work of, at Lincoln, i. 303; ii. 94.

Renaissance, the, ii. 279; completion of the dome of the cathedral at Florence during the, 288; early architects of the, 314.

Renaissance, Gothic, i. 347; ii. 317-328.

Repair of ancient buildings, i. 363.

Rere-arches, i. 281 _et seq._

Reredos, Westminster Abbey, i. 181.

Restoration of ancient buildings, i. 363-365; in the days of Canute, ii. 35.

“Revival of Letters,” ii. 293.

Revival, works of the, merit of, i. 2; of mediæval architecture, 3; of styles, 208, 340, 346; traditional phase in the, 346; to be distinctly English, 351.

Rheims, St. Remi, i. 103.

Rheims Cathedral, i. 18, 21, 141, 326; apsidal columns, 155; sculpture at, ii. 312.

Rhineland, i. 45.

Ribs, groin, i. 59, 238, 246, 274, 344; introduction of diagonal, 239.

Ribs in vaulting, ii. 80, 177, 191-193, 207-209, 192, 193, 207, 216, 217.

Richard Cœur de Lion, tomb of, ii. 275.

Richard le Bon, ii. 67.

Ridel, Bishop, i. 111.

Rims; see Orders.

Ripon Cathedral, i. 200; Roger’s Choir, 109; capitals, 123; St. Wilfrid’s church at, ii. 31; crypt, 32.

Rivaulx Abbey, i. 122, 201, 286.

Roche Abbey, i. 109.

Rochester Cathedral, ii. 27, 29, 116; triforium of, 66; Gundulph, bishop of, 116; Castle, 116; Keep at, 135.

Roger, Bishop, i. 108, 109, 120.

Rollo, i. 44.

Roman brick, ii. 37, 40, 41, 44, 52; at St. Alban’s, 75; from Verulam, 97; and tiles, 102.

Roman, construction, i. 219; old, manner of building, ii. 5, 9, 35; vaulting, 156; baths, 180; in Britain, 13; Pharos, Castle-hill, Dover, 43; architecture, 137, 138, 145.

Romane; see Romanesque.

Romanesque, i. 13; in France and Germany, 15, 33; ii. 7; cathedrals of Germany, i. 43; refined variety of, 44; leading characteristics, 48; religious to the utmost extreme, 49; ornamentation, 70, 81; Pointed Gothic but an advanced stage of, 50; vaulted churches, 51; refinement of, 70; Corinthianesque style of foliage, 77; crypt at St. Denis, 80; transepts at Tournay, 90; English, 104, 337; transition from, 123; windows, 159, 161; builders, 221; cathedral bay, 243; of Southern Europe, 254, 337; in Normandy, 327; manner of building, ii. 6; primitive, 11; of the North of France, 62, 63, 64; style, 73, 75; elements of, 75; perfect varieties, 82; abacus, 94; arch-mouldings, 142; early, 306; of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, 308.

Romano-British reminiscences, ii. 60.

Romans, vaulting used by the, i. 52, 57; their pointed arch, 66;