Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 464
III. 251. — Plan of Reims. (From Dehio) Transept ends were usually designed on principles quitesimilar to those which governed the composition of the westfa9ade. Since, however, they were less important than themain front of the church, the design was ordinarily less elaborate,and the towers which… … III. ^25-Z. — Facade of Noyon GARGOYLES The most beautiful of all transept fa9ades are those of Chartres(111. 256) with their exquisite porches, — the glorification ofthe narthexes of Laon and Noyon, — and their wealth of statu-ary eclipsing the west portals of almost any other cathedral.…
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