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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 113

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 113
Westernon pendentives or squinches prevail in most of the churchesthat have been mentioned in this district. But there areseveral instances of a western tower. S. Radegonde at Poitiers,Poitiers has had the nave re-built in the 13th or 14th cen- gondetury, but retains a fine Romanesque tower at the… … Fig. 84. CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 59 ears at the corners of a sarcophae^us. S. Porchaire in the s. Por-same city has a fine though incomplete tower at the westend. On the amusing capitals of the doorway the sculptorhas represented two animals, which for the benefit ofthose of us less conversant…

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