The church itself is very plain, and its interest isconfined to the fragments it contains of the oldercathedral. A piece of sculpture with grotesqueanimals which is built into the west front, andother pieces of the same kind which are laid in thepavements, seem to belong to the ninth or… … Fig- 83. the new duomo in the fifteenth century as the cathedra of the bishops of Ossero. It is made upof old fragments, covered with interlacing patterns io6 Ossero. [Ch. XXV. and figures of fabulous beasts and peacocks, in thesame style and of the same date as the other piecesof carving in the…
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