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Title: Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix (and) Roussillon
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ed by the Hugue-nots in 1569. In 1888 the crypt was made known tothe French Archaeological Congress, which met at Daxin that year, and as a consequence, was declared anliistorical monument. Since that time the churchhas been cleared away, the fourteenth-century ribbedand bossed vaulting removed and replaced by a modemimitation of eleventh - century work, and a chapelbuilt above it, apparently to serve a fine new hospitalwhich has been erected close by. The eleventh-centurychurch was destroyed in some way, and on its remainsanother was built in the fourteenth century, but thecrypt is mainly of the earlier date, through the fullydeveloped style and accomplishment of much of thecarving point to a delayed completion. Certain of thepatterns upon the abaci closely resemble others metwith at Moissac and S. Sernin, Toulouse, and there isalso considerable resemblance in the costume andtreatment of some of the figures. The lions, monsters,and birds bear an equal likeness in treatment to carving
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CRYPT AT HAGETMAU. THE CRYPT AT HAGETMAU 93 in Roussillon, as at Serrabona, and the fragments ofthe cloisters of S. Michel de Cuxa, and S. Martin deCanigou. The eyes of the figures have pupils of lead.

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