Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 282
the choir-screen.— SAINT-BERTRAND-DE-COMIONGES. Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges. 261 stone seems a forbidding grey, and even the sun and many-candlelights fail to add cheer. In spite of the shrine andthe old tombs of the side-chapels, the glories of the churchare within the choir-screen, for this was a… … the canons cloister.—SAINT-BERTRAND-DE-COMMINGES. of 1535 that these works of Bishop Jean de Mauleon, thescreen, the stalls, the rood-loft, and the altar were conse-crated. The Canons must have shivered in their fur-trimmed capes, their breath must have seemed white asthe snow outside, and their…
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