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Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)

Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 396

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s eight-celled vault are very bold, and the dog-toothenrichment is freely used round all the arches and along thestring-courses. The diagonal or canted sides of the lantern arecarried on pointed arches, the space below which is filled in withpendentives, with the stones arranged in courses… … TARRA.aONA OATHP.DRAI, riEW ACROSS THAXSF.PTS. Chap. XIII. TARRAGONA: CATHEDRAL. 281 the roofs. The outside lias at each angle a buttress, with anengaged shaft in front of it, and the windows are all set withinsimple enclosing arches. Their tracery is that of ordinaryfirst-pointed windows, the…

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