A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 342
stinctive rharaeter than the Komanes(iue; SPAIN elaborate stonework, sometimes merely a hij;hmetal railing or grille. In the design aii<l inthe elalioration of this elioir enclosure theSpanish architects develoi)ed a reniarkahle aliil-ity, and in nearly all of the large churchesthese arc worthy… … and, indeed, the only peculiarly Spanish fea-ture about the Gothic churches is in the plan.In Spain the church is built jirimarily for theclergy, consequently the space occupied by thepriests includes, not only the ])ortion to the eastof the intersection, which is si)ecifieally desig-nated as the…
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