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double church.
1. Two-storeyed church, i.e. with a church on each storey, as in the Romanesque Church of Schwarz-Rheindorf, Rhineland, Germany (C12).

2. Church with two distinct naves joined together at a centre point, as at the L-shaped Lutheran Church, Freudenstadt, Germany (1601–8).

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