Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 212
elancholy 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 great ungainlybuttresses; in the damp little close, a weeping willoweasts its shade across the borders of an abandoned Novon i«i well,… … THE CORBAULT GATE. NOYON. arches which are divided again by little columns andsurmounted by three open oculi. Although this partof the Cloister is a storehouse of boards, dust, brokenstatues, and building stuffs, it is still beautiful; one 182 The Early Gothic side is decorated with blind arcades,…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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