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Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 274

An illustration from Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy, 1915, leaf 274
hat was to havebeen a larger building, of which the nave is unfinished.It affords an extreme instance of the hazardous lengthsto which Gothic construction can be pushed. The wholechurch is a mere lantern of gorgeous stained glass framedin slender spars of stone. The mullions are slight likebars of… … ■li ^\.^^-^r sty- Fig. 66. i6o FRANCE [ch. ix s. Urbain ground the whole apse, which has no aisle or chapels,royes g^^j^^ ^^ |^^ ^^ glass. Clcrestory and triforium arepractically one window with two planes of tracery anda passage between them, the outer tracery being glazedin the triforium and the…

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