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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 318

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ST MAXIMIN. 287 a nave of three divisions or bays, each covered with roundintersecting vaults, strengthened with large square groins,and terminated at the east end with a circular apse, thewhole extending to 120 feet in length by 28 feet in width.The vaults spring from piers, which arc really large… … FIG. 131. FREJUS—WESTERN ENCLOSURE AND CATHEDRA!. BUILDINGS. a side aisle added at a later date, with still later chapelsbeyond. The string courses, caps, etc., are all of the samesimple forms employed in so many buildings of the period.Nothing could be plainer or more devoid of ornament than 288…

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