Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 36
he greatest aswell as the most vast of French crypts, seems, froman architectural standpoint, a misleading and foolishstatement. It is the mystery of the underground andthe venerable memiories enshrined there that lenddignity to its low and heavy walls; it is the atmosphereof silence, so conducive… … the most beautiful of THEbL UEIAIL^ I;CHARTRES. IHE CHOIR-SCREEN. — 13 Chartres 15 terised the church that was constructed over thecrypt has been more or less seriously disturbed by thedecorations of following centuries. The most renowned of these decorations is the choir-screen. Forty groups of…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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