Excerpt from Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, Vol. 1 of 2

Several years ago, when I used to take pupils, they came to my house occasionally for an informal talk about our art, illustrated by reference to books and sketches, and for their use I gathered together rough materials for a history of Post-Roman Architecture. It seemed to me that these might be of service to others also if put into a literary form, so far at all events as time permitted me to carry the scheme, which is not likely to go beyond the present volumes.

While thus engaged I was asked to give a course of lectures to the Royal Institution and afterwards to the University of Cambridge, for which I chose the Byzantine and Romanesque period. These lectures, expanded, form the foundation of this book, which will I trust help those who are interested in Architecture, whether professionally or not, to appreciate a chapter in Art which yields to none in importance, and is inferior to none in attractiveness.

The buildings I have chosen for description and illustration are, so far as it was possible, those I have visited and studied myself. In cases where I have not seen a building to which I refer I have generally said so. Information derived at second-hand is only of second-rate importance.

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