Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 193
ligious significance. They are called Ways of theCross or Ways of Jerusalem; and it is said that, inmemory of Christs journey to Calvary, pious personsused to toil on their knees from the beginning of theline to its end. But Monsieur Durand, who has soprofoundly studied the Cathedral of Amiens,… … the far-famedweeping angelleans on a skull. —AMIENS. Amiens 171 and enigmatic detail, a baptismal font of the XII andXIII centuries. Its supports are short, deeply carvencolumns; its basin is simply ornamented, and thefigure of an Evangelist stands at each of its fourcorners. The font is curious…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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