Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 132
the trace of a GRACEFrX .\RCH .\BO\E .\X ANGULAR XMH DOOR. — V.ABRES. Vabres. 115 gaudy altar of the epoch of the roi soleil, stands flaunt-ingly where a simpler, truer altar must once have stood.The single nave and its side-chapels are neatly whitewashedand painted in imitation of the stone which… … the cathedral, a clean and newly-restored building.—vabres. deed be next to godliness, and a state of restoration whichtakes from the church all the character which it might havepreserved. The room is quite spacious; but the only sign ofits vanished splendour is the pulpit, plain and…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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