Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 262
St. Ours. One says bizarre, simply because itis curious, and not because it is unchurchly inany sense of the word, for it is not. Its lownave is surmounted by an enormous tower witha stone spire, while there are two other pyram-idal erections over the roof of the choir whichmake the whole look, not… … St. Ours, Loches Loches 199 like a camel with two humps. This strangearchitectural anomaly is, in parts, almostpagan; certainly its font, a fragment of anancient altar on which once burned a sacredfire, is pagan. There is a Romanesque porch of vast dimen-sions which is the real artistic expression…
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