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Portuguese architecture (1908)

Watson, Walter Crum · London : A. Constable and company, limited · leaf 144

An illustration from Portuguese architecture, 1908, leaf 144
om the cloister ;it is now an octagon springing strangely from the squarebelow, with a rich parapet, inside which stands a tall spire ;this spire, which has a sort of coronet rather more than half-way up, consists of eight massive crocketed ribs ending in ahuge finial, and with the space between… … X $o X 43 ° t ^^ :- fcj a BATALHA Sy survived the beautiful alterations ot Dom Maiioel, the detailsof the cloister must have been very like those of the church.The refectory to the west of the cloister is a plain room roofedwith a pointed barrel-vault ; but the chapter-house is con-structively the…

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