Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 414
grander plan, and with magnificenceproportionate to his high estate. The work was energeticallycommenced; but, before long, zeal cooled; and the monu-ment, begun about 1152, after suffering numerous interrup-tions, was not consecrated till 1379, by Bishop Bertrand deMeaumont. In the meantime the… … POITIERS CATHEDRAL 3II Fourteenth Century. Some of the details of the towers areeven more recent, and must be attributed to the FifteenthCentury. St. Pierre de Poitiers is one of the most remarkable build-ings of the transitional period : it bears all the characteris-tics of that remarkable epoch…
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