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A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 128

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. It is octagonal, the lowerportion as broad as the nave of the church,with a two-light window under a roundbearing-arch in each face, and two ranges greater juirt is concealed liy the uj)perstages of the octagon which are builtround it. The interior is spacious andnot without grandeur, though now… … Fig. 47.—Chiaiavalle, Abbey Chuich. of oyiQW arcaded galleries above. At thispoint a somewiiat later construction begins—a series of diminishing arcaded galleries,out of which rises a slender tower in twostories, tlie upper one an arcaded belfrystage linishing with an open l)alustradeand a round…

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