The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 335
al in treatment, and hasall the bold simplicity, sturdy vigour, and beauty ofproportion typical of the Norman style. In central and southern France the principal towerof a church was usually placed at the intersection ofthe nave and the transept, forming thus a centralclimax, as in St.-Sernin, at… … Fig. 123.—Ste.-Trinite at Caen. ing great convenience to refugees, who, havingsought an asylum in the sanctuary, were enabled toanoint the heads of their enemies with boiling oilor molten lead whenever they endeavoured to forcean entrance. The same reason has also been ad-vanced to account for the…
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