Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 218
are plain solid walls, up the mid-dle of each of which runs a plain, half-hexagonal turret, withloop holes to give light to the staircases constructed withinit. The parapet of these plain sides of the octagon as wellas that of the others is of good flowing tracery, piercedthrough. The turrets are… … EVREUX CATHEDRAL EVREUX CATHEDRAL 159 also octangular, rises from within the tower, and aroundthe base of it are pinnacles, which are attached to the spireby flying buttresses; it has pointed windows to the top ineach side, one above another with bands of tracery betweeneach. Those in the lowest…
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