//. ir RKl.MS CATUKPRAl, octagon, and from the octagon to the lines of the spire.There is in this composition very little of that weakness ofthe continuously sloping line so visible in St. Stephens ofVienna, which is the difficulty of this class of tow^er, just asthe abrupt transition from tower to… … SENLIS CATHEUKAI. Originall)- transitional. Tower, early thirteenth century, a masterpiece.Transept, late fifteenth, the finest of its type except Beauvais. From Monuments Ilistoriqucs. 152 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE To the same class belong the grand towers of Laon,with their spires, unhappily destroyed,…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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