Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 101
In the interior, the arches of the vaulting,and those carrying the towers, are all pointed, but con-tain some strictly Romanesque features. On the whole,the work has a decidedly Romanesque appearance, but,nevertheless, has the pointed arch so freely used in itas to show that it was anything but the… … Fig. 15. —St. Denis. Interior of one of the Apsidal Chapels. the year 1144, as to permit of its consecration; theking, with his capricious queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine,and a multitude of the great men of the country, beingpresent at the ceremony. LECTURE III.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 79
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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