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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 169

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, He rules in majesty. Few churches have now the subterranean chapelsand martyriums which many once had. That ofSaint-Jean-de-Maurienne is filled with stones anddebris; that of Sens is closed, forgotten, perhaps inruins; and when the theological significance of crypts 146 The Mature Gothic ceased,… … IN THE CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL.—AUXERRE. but in its venerable Christian antiquity, it is worthyof Catholic care, and, although there are nobler typesof this form of architecture, Saint Stephens is animportant example of underground Romanesque.

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