The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 256
windowabove it (Fig. 96). An embrasured parapet is placed abovethis, and three ornamental corbels jut out from the face ofthe wall, to enable thedefenders to approachthe parapet and man it.These corbels are, how-ever, not joined to theparapet, although theydivide the long archedmachicolation into… … APSE, ST NAZAIRE, BEZIERS. parapet. The eastern apse wasalso rebuilt in the begin-ning of the fourteenth century. Here also (Fig. 98) widemachicolations are formed by arches thrown across betweenthe buttresses, while the parapet above is finished with anopen arcaded balustrade, which, in an…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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