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Title: Peeps into Picardy
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Craufurd, W. D Manton, E Manton, E. A
Subjects: Picardy (France) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SF.DILIA, WISMES. WIRWIGNES 75 for ideal completed, his life-work accomplishedere- he died. The cure decorated this churchalmost entirely by his own handiwork. The onlyassistance he received was by the gift of marblefor his mosaics and colours for his paintings. Allthe side chapels, of which there are a great many,are done in mosaic, with slabs of marble in variousdesigns to form a dado on either side of the altars.No two chapels are aUke. The Stations of theCross, sculptured in stone and tinted, are let intothe wall round the church. The pillars are eachpainted with different designs, some quite ex-cellent. The two large pillars supporting thechancel arch are coated with marble mosaics, as inthe inner walls of the church, including the spaceunder the centre tower and the baptistery. Thefloor is marble. The altars are all of carved stone,with the exception of the high altar, which, withits altar rails, is Renaissance, and of carved wood.Many of the super-altars in the chapels are most

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