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 164
carrying the principlesof Gothic art to its extreme is painfully evident. The church ofSt. Urbain of Troyes, mentioned farther on, p. 155, and the choir ofwhich has just been restored (1891) and filled with modern stainedglass, resembles more an ephemeral construction in iron and glass, asort of… … 633> Spires of Laon Cathedral. (From Dusomerard.) and most elegant transition specimens in Prance, having been com-menced about the year 1137, and completed, as we now see it, in 1167.Here the circular arch had not entirely diappeared, which was owingto its early date, and to its situation near…
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