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Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 282

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The eifect is good, the bold spacingof the shafts, and the massiveness of the intermediate squarejambs, tending to give that effect of solidity Avhich these earlySjianish architects never tired in then- attempts to attain. The interior of the church has been much modernized, butstill enough remains… … 11^ nff;i!!!!l!ili:ilWiya!a Chap. IX. SEGOVIA: SAN MILLAN. 189 capitals of the nave arcades have their abaci pLanned witli re-en-tering angles, so as exactly to fit the plan of the two sqnare ordersof the archivolt. Some of the caps are of foliage only, othersare Mstorih; one I remember having all…

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