aulting piers are soslio-ht and have so little projection that they tail to satisfythJeye as the only points of support. At St. Germain thebuttresses project inside the building, and the windows, setback as they are, are evidently a mere screen, so thewhole rectangle between the cornice and the… … sr. c;ermaix-e.\-lave, exterior From ■ .Monuments Historiques. trast to the vertical line of the pier, yet without breaking it.The design of the windows as a whole, and in detail, is finerthan that of Paris, where some of the hardness and drynessof later French work is just beginning to make itself…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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