Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 211
* proportion isconceived with elegance and delicacv. i So The Early Gothic The facade of the building has the appearance of aone-storied structure, with a plain useful entrance-way,buttresses with ornamented pinnacles, and five largeand handsome Gothic windows. On the opposite side, the Hall opens… … IN THE DAMP LITTLE CLOSE, A WEEPING WILLOW CASTS ITS SHADE,AND WEEDS AND SHRUBS GROW AS THEY WILL. NOYON. Here the most poetic and melancholy decay nowexists. Because two sides of the walls needed resto-ration, they were destroyed; and the third side, whichescaped this fate, was then propped by…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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