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Portuguese architecture (1908)

Watson, Walter Crum · London : A. Constable and company, limited · leaf 92

An illustration from Portuguese architecture, 1908, leaf 92
a picturesque domecovered with many-coloured tiles. Somewhat older than the cathedral, but not unlike it,was the church of Sao Christovao now destroyed, while SaoThiago still has a west door whose shafts are even moreelaborately carved and twisted than are those at the Se Velha.^ There is more than… … a 1 ^HiBBflHaMBH^^H cy^ ■ffp U^ t- ^^^A f^. jL ^^^^■i^^ n ■ ^ o ,, EARLY BUILDINGS IN THE SOUTH 51 church at Thomar, older than the cathedral of Evora, andindeed older than the Se Velha at Coimbra ; but Evora, exceptthat its arches are pointed instead of round, is so clearlyderived directly from…

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