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On 15/08/2010 16:58, John Dillon wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, 2010, at 3:42 am, Henk wrote:
>
>> John wrote: For smaller spaces, contemporary with Hildegard and highly
>> painted, there's the Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf in Bonn-Beuel, once
>> the
>> church of a Benedictine women's abbey.
>>
>>
>> That would have been more like it. Just what I meant.
>>
>
> Indeed.  But, to give purists something obvious to complain about, there are exotic ornamental trees on the premises, especially these two on the south side of the church:
> http://tinyurl.com/298p6jl
> It's unlikely that a director shooting scenes along the adjacent dwarf gallery would take the trouble to replace them filmically with something else.

The trees don't look too bad to me, but that spire looks awfully 14th 
century - and rather English, for that matter.

John Briggs

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