Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 74
e. In 1120 this church was consumed by a terrible firewhich even melteid the bells in the campanile, the aislesalone escaping, thanks to their stone roofs. It was inconsequence of this disaster that the re-building of the ^ Hoc tempore burgus Sancti Frontonis et monasterium cum suis orna-mentis… … CH. xixj FRANCE—AQUITAINE -^-j church in its present form was begun ; the older church s. From,at the western end was partly retained, and in the new ^^^^part the opportunity was taken of building somethingmuch grander,—something that might be compared tothe great church on the lagoons of which the…