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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 266

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existing structure is of the twelfthcentury. The masonry is roughly built, partly with herring-bone work, and in some cases the arches of the windowsare distinguished with dark-coloured stones. The interioris divided into a nave and two aisles, the tunnel vault ELNE. 241 of the nave being pointed… … FIG. 106. MARBLE GATEWAY, ELNE. been reconstructed with cross ribs, a restoration probablyof the fourteenth century. The whole of the work is ofthe simplest character and almost without ornament. At the east end (Fig. 107) the ancient apse with itscircular arcade is visible, rising above the…

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