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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France : including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 170

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ven a sophistical excuse for the in-troduction of the lateral chapels. In 1864, largechapels were destroyed that new ones might be builtand the church restored in its primitive style. Itwould seem as if the latter half of the XIX cen-tury should have developed a more critical sense; Sens 139 for… … little ROMANESQUE ARCADES OPEN INTO THEIR LOW AND SOMBRE DEPTHS. SENS. into their low and sombre depths, and if they haveany good (quality it is that of a retiring modesty. The churchs exterior is, as a whole, rather heavy andcumbersome. Its apse and lateral walls have thecharacteristic feature of…

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