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Portuguese architecture (1908)

Watson, Walter Crum · London : A. Constable and company, limited · leaf 176

An illustration from Portuguese architecture, 1908, leaf 176
ound window—heavily moulded—and the whole gable endsin a queer little round pediment set between two armillaryspheres. Inside the piers are eight-sided with octagonal bases andcaps, and with a band of ornament half-way up the shaft. Thearches are simply chamfered but are each crossed by threecarved… … PIG. 41. Villa no Conde.Sao Joao Baitista. LATER GOTHIC 109 As at Azurara, the parish church of Santa Maria dos Anjos Caminha.at Caminha is in plan very like the Matriz at Villa do Conde.Caminha lies on the Portuguese side of the estuary of the Minho,close to its mouth, and the church was begun in…

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