Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 354
oduced in the naves. Thetransept, restored in the Fourteenth Century, in certainparts presents the elegant but sometimes exuberant charac-teristics of the flowered Gothic style. The north wall iscovered by a network tracery that seems to divide it intofour bays ; a magnificent rose of twelve petals… … SOISSONS CATHEDRAL SOISSONS CATHEDRAL 263 with a dripstone enriched with rosettes resting on modil-lions with human masks. The cornice is decorated withleaf volutes. The arum, the vine and the fern predominate in thecarvings. The door in the north transept that opens towards theeast, surmounted by…
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