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 175
avc. At the bottom are three finedoorways, covered with traceried cano-pies. The apsidal end of the nave finishesin a rich crown of gables and pinnacles,and heavy flying buttresses spring overtiie aisles. Apf)areutly the church wasiu)t roofed, and the vaulting, cemented onthe outside, was the only… … Fig. 62.—Famagusta, Cathedral. FAMAGUSTA (Famagosta), Cjprus. The Cathedral of St. Xicholas, now amosque, was built under the Lusignankings of Cyprus, and probably near the be-ginning of the XIV century. It is a lai-ge,three aisled Gothic cliuroh. nearly 200 ft.long and 100 ft. wide, without…
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