Summer holidays among the glories of France, her cathedrals and churches (1902)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis), 1861-1916 · London, T. B. Bumpus · leaf 144
. lastcentury, the west front of Sens Cathedral, rich as is the almostclassical purity of the sculptured effigies lining its triple portals,cannot be pronounced imposing. Neither is it harmonious, con-sequent chiefly upon the abrupt manner in which two large Sens andjoigny 125 complete Gothic… … SENS CATHEDRAL : THE NORTH TRANSEPT There is no central steeple here, nor do the roofs meet evenin the simple fieche, the absence of which from so many of thegreat cruciform French churches, equipped only with one tower. 126 Holidays among the Glories of France imparts to them a great sameness of…
Church architecture · Cathedrals
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