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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 321

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Plate XXXIV.—Romanesque construction ; transverse section,showing flying buttress. From Tuckerman. 298 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. … Christian period, being often surrounded by radiatingchapels, as in Notre Dame du Port, at Clermont (Fig.117). But as the principal entrance was on the westernside, this facade became the most elaborate, as maybe seen in the Church of Notre Dame at Poitiers(Plate XXXV). The fagade was usually…

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