The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 430
This gateway seems to have formed theancient entrance through a square tower placed for defenceon the neck of land which joins the promontory to themainland. It presents the same character as the squaregate towers of Avignon, having a plain pointed archway ST PAUL-DU-VAR. 399 and portcullis groove… … FIG. 226. INTERIOR OF N. GATEWAY, ST PAUL-DU-VAR. This tower has been incorporated by Mandon in hisworks, and is strengthened externally by a bastion withanother portcullis, and a narrow passage commanded fromabove. 400 MEDI/EVAL PERIOD. But St Paul possesses memorials of a much older timeeven than…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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