All the Cathedrals of FranceThis volume represents the product of a dedicated twelve-year study of the French Cathedrals. Upon his death 1994 Basil Cottle left his nearly-completed manuscript version of All the Cathedrals of France to Bristol University Library. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Editors note | 13 |
List of cathedrals with map references | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Abbey Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ambulatory angels Apostles apse arcades arches bays Bishop blue building buttresses canopied carved Cathedral of Notre-Dame chancel chapel chevet choir Christ church clerestory clerestory windows cloister colour columns corbels crossing crowned crypt cusped depicting dome doorway east end eighteenth-century eleventh century Evangelists Évry façade feet fifteenth fifteenth-century figures Flamboyant foliage capitals former cathedral four fourteenth-century France frieze gable gilded glass Gothic high altar Huguenots inside Jean kneeling lancets Last Judgement later Louis machicolated marble Mary medieval nave niches octagonal paintings panels piers pilasters pillars pinnacles plain polygonal Pope porch portal pulpit quatrefoils rebuilt Renaissance reredos restored Roman Romanesque roof Saint-Étienne SAINT-JEAN-DE-MAURIENNE Saint-Lizier Saints scenes seventeenth-century shows south aisle south side south transept spire St John Baptist stalls statues stone survived tall thirteenth thirteenth-century tomb tower town tracery transept Tree of Jesse triforium turrets twelfth century tympanum vaulting Virgin and Child voussoirs wall west front