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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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imbed,and another patriarch also nimbed. The door is two-leaved, between which a well-carved pier bears threecouples of crossed lionesses of fine style above eachother, with figures in relief on the sides, Isaiah on theright and S. Peter on the left. Two fine storiatedcaps above support a well-carved lintel of whitemarble, part of an older construction. It is decoratedwith eight rosettes and two halves of a similar designto some on an early fragment in the museum at Cahors,and on the door of the north transept at Conques. Thesame kind of form also appears in the background ofthe pier between the lionesses. In front of the halfrosettes are half-beasts vomiting a cord, which sur-rounds each rosette intertwining. MM. Lasteyrie andBrutails think this pattern a twelfth-century reproduc-tion of a Gallo-Roman motif. The lionesses tailsterminate in bud forms, bearing a close resemblanceto details found in Assyrian sculptures. The wall ofthe porch, pierced here and there with little loopholes,
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PART OF THE GREAT DOORWAY, MOISSAC. 400 MOISSAC has no ornament, but two columns nearly 30 feet inheight, one on each side of the door, and a row ofmodillions below the first range of battlements. Thiscornice goes round the corner, and there is a secondon the west and north sides beneath the windows ofthe earlier building on the level of the upper battle-ments. One of the south modillions represents theTrinity by three heads intimately connected. On oneof the great columns is a figure of a monk without animbus, while the other is occupied by a statue of AbbotRoger. He is vested pontifically, and is accompaniedby a five-lined inscription running bea (tu) s. rogeriusABBAS. There is a mutilated projecting stone toshelter the figure from the rain. The arch has three orders, with ornaments carvedbetween the rolls, which continue the slender colon-nettes of the jambs. Small caps without abaci markthe springing of the arch. The angles between thesecolonnettes bear rows of rats or rabbits, of

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