Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 486
ofty octagonalstaircase turret is carried up to the height of the clerestoryagainst one of the outer angles of the aisle wall, and a passage-way from it to the clerestory roof is boldly carried upon an arch,which takes the place of a flying buttress. The steeple is lofty: it is entered by old… … MANRKSA. INTERIOH OF THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH. Chap. XVI. MANRESA: THK COLLEGIATA. o4o ingeniously introduced instead. On the top of tlie tower a largebell is suspended from the intersection of four arched stone ribs;these ribs rise about twenty-five feet from the roof, are aboutone foot six inches…
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