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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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be an hour away, and it was a great relief to be toldthat it was available. The old fellow who lived thereapparently bred goats, for he showed us a flock oftwenty-three kids, which he had sold to the father ofour little guide. He was at first very nervous abouthis responsibility, and told the boy he wouldnt keepthe key any more, but quieted down under my assur-ance that no harm would be done to the building or anyof its contents, and the production of the authorizationfrom the Minister of Fine Arts ; and when he foundthat responsibility meant acquiring small douceurs, hebecame quite friendly, shook hands, and wanted us todrink with him ! This we thought it wise to decline,having no information as to the quality of the liquor. The structures have been a good deal deformed bytheir conversion into farm buildings, and the approachis through a portion of the farm and a stackyard. Theexterior is bare and savage, and almost entirely withoutdecoration except on the south side, where there are
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EXTERNAL ARCHES, PRIORY OF SERRABONA. 244 THE PRIORY OF SERRABONA traces of something like a cloister high above theground, though there is no sign of roof on the wallwest of this space, nor of any projection from thetransept wall. Here, at each end of the group, is alarge unmoulded arch, with impost and two groups ofthree arches, with a pier between, rising to the heightof the crown of the big arches. The small arches havetwo orders, the outside one being stop-chamfered witha hollow. They originally rested on twin colonnettes,with a decided entasis, of a marble which has weatheredto a beautiful golden-yellow; the bases have claws, andthe caps are finely carved. When these openings werefilled up, the inner colonnettes were used to decoratethe interior of the apse. Above these arches is abracketed cornice, and there are marks of a slopingroof above the westward large arch. The ground fallsprecipitously almost from the foot of the walls, andthere is no room for a cloister of the usual d

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