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Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 285

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g great characterand dignity to the whole scheme.The west doorway of the porchhas statues in its jambs, andthe detail seems to me to beall genuine thirteenth centurywork. The illustration of oneof the cloister capitals will, Ithink, prove this; for thoughthe old favourite device ofcouples of birds… … (Capital in Cloister, San Martin, Segov kind. This church i Chap. IX. SEGOVIA: CHURCHES. 191 east end, and transepts, against which the side cloisters ofthe nave were stopped. There is a modern lantern over theold crossing, and a tower to the west of it rising from out of thecentre of the nave,…

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