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Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 220

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DE COMPOSTELLA. 149 the interior, as externally it lias no old feature save a simplelittle window in its north wall. A narrow passage from the Plaza de San IMartin leads to theupper side of a third Plaza opposite the east end; and here, thoughthe cathedral has been enclosed within square modern… … wit!i a number of statues, evidently, I think, taken from a door-way, and perhaps from the destroyed north doorway.^ Fromthis fragment of the chevet, it seems that the eastern chapel wassurrounded with a deeply recessed arcading, within which werebroad, round-arched windows with moulded archivolts…

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