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,… … [G. H. \v. ST. JEAX DES VIGXES, SOISSOXS towers, their buttresses from top to bottom are so coveredwith ornament that one needs to look twice to see howthey are carried on such a niass of shafts, and pinnacles,and openwork, and sculpture. It is a serious defect, and theconfusion of the desigfn and…
Church architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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