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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 239

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eatures were united inone design (see Fig. 140). Local considerations had full swayin France, in spite of the tendencytoward unity of type. Thus Dol, Laon, and Poitiers havesquare eastward terminations ; Chalons has no ambulatory ;Bourges no transept. In Notre Dame the transept wasalmost… … FIG. 123. founded in 1280, but mostly built during the fourteenthcentury, has neither side aisles nor transepts, its wide nave being flanked by chapels sepa-rated by internal buttresses (Fig. 123)- SCALE. The French cathedralswere nearly all of imposing di-mensions. Noyon, one of thesmallest, is…

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