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Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix, & Roussillon (1912)

Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923 · New York : Dutton · leaf 98

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in the character of thecarving and the arrangement of the windows andsemi-dome. Here, and in the great arch of the choir,balls are used as claws. The shafts of the choir-archhave a second small column above the first cap, andthe corbels of the vaulting group with its cap to forman important… … 72 TO SAUVETERRE DE BEARN arcade are simple in plan, and the carving of the capsearly. The vaulting of the aisles is of the later period :the crossing piers are raised on irregular octagonalbases with chamfered angles, and the plan suggestslate twelfth-century ; the ball claws occur here too,yet…

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