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Summer holidays among the glories of France, her cathedrals and churches (1902)

Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis), 1861-1916 · London, T. B. Bumpus · leaf 262

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there is but little stained-glass, The omission of transepts is evidently a localism. Compare Varzy,Clamecy, and the more distant seventeenth-century church of St. Pierreat Auxerre. Ncvcrs 243 the flood of light poured in through these great windows gives tothe chureh—at any rate to the eye of the… … NF.VF.RS CATHF.niiAL : THF. AISE The choir of four hays is tolerable Late Middle Pointed, butits circumambient aisle and chapels are gems of thirteenth-centurywork. Perhaps the most graceful feature of the choir is its glazedtriforium, which, like that at Tours, Metz, Troyes, St. Ouen atRouen, and…

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