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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 68

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 68
thechurch exhaled the sweetest scent as of aromas. Ona still larger scale was the famous basilica of S. Martin builtby Bishop Perpetuus in 472 at Tours, which Gregory thehistorian and bishop himself re-built after a conflagration. 1 Plin. Ep. V. 6. Sid. Apoll. Ep. n. ii. 2 Parietes ad altarium… … Op C/2 CH. xix] FRANCE 31 It was 10 ft. longer than that at Clermont, though not Church ofquite so lofty: it had 52 windows, 120 columns, and at Tours8 doors, and seems to have been preceded by an atriumor cloistered forecourt. Sidonius celebrates this churchin an ode of which he sends a copy to…

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