Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 544
at the avenues mentioned just now all unite. The view here is very peculiar. In front are the low walls ofthe outer court, with a raised archway in the centre; behindthese the higher walls and towers, with a lofty and very plaincentral gateway, finished with an octagonal stage and lowcrocketed… … a [> H Chap. XVIir. VEKUELA: ABBEY. 385 steeple of the Abbey Church, backed by a bold line of hills.Passing through this gateway, a long narrow court leads to thewest front of the church; and to the right of this court is along range of buildings, all of which I think are of compara-tively…
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