side aisles, are of inlaid work — a kind of decoration which has a very bad effect. Another church at Amsterdam, equally worthy of notice, is the Nieuwe-Kerk (the new church), a name to which it has about as great a title as our Pont Neuf, for it dates from the beginning of the fifteenth century.… … Fig. 62. —Ground-plan of the Wester-Kerk at Amsterdam. (Scale, *039 inch to the yard.) chapels erected on the right side of the transept must, by their arrangements, have greatly contributed to the splendour of Roman Catholic ceremonies. The choir is surrounded by aisles and radiating chapels, that…
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