A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 111
of external polychro-matic decoration now to be found so far to the north. In effect, thisis perhaps hardly equal to the open galleries of the German churches ;but the expense must have been considerably less, and the variety ofthe outline of the chevet arrangement, as compared with the simpleapse,… … u9C. Plan of Chevet, Notre Dame du Port, Clermont. (Fiom Cliapuy.) Xo scab. and had they been carried out on the same scale as those of Amiensand Chartres, they would probably be thought more beautiful. It istrue the flying buttresses and pinnacles of the pointed style enabledthe architects to…
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