The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 175
Beauvais. Although at firstformed very simply, these buildings soon began to be richly decoratedwith gilt mosaics, splendid marbles, and luxuriant carvings. Stephenof Toumay describes the basilica of St. Genevieve at Paris, built byClevis, and destroyed by the Normans, as being covered with… … The church of St. John at Poitiers, represented above, is consideredas belonging to the sixth or seventh century, and was originally abaptistry, as is proved by the discovery of a great octagon basin in thecentre, and used for baptism by immersion. This building has under-gone many changes, but the…
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