Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 186
er is complied with, and the require-ments of convenience and good taste found to be inunison. The gable of the fa9ade is often, like thewindow-gable, covered with tracery, so rich andvaried in design that one may say, as Dr. Whewellsays of Strasbourg, It looks as if placed behind arich open screen… … Southern Transept of Notre Dame. See p. 170. walls of the towers. This gallery is usually filledwith statues, and completely hides the pinnacledgable. 170 * Architecture. In the later Gothic, the transepts terminated inportals ornamented like those of the fagade ; andthese were often crowned with…
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