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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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f the five windowsonly two remain in the original state. Two bays havethirteenth-century vaulting shafts and pointed vatdtswith horizontal ribs. The first bay has great piers,with columns attached east and west; the third pieron the right and the fourth on the left were enlargedpolygonally in the fifteenth century, hiding the originalplan. The aisles are lofty—about 42 feet; the transeptand nave vaults are nearly 60 feet above the pave-ment. The transept is 70 feet long, the church fromeast to west over 180 feet, of which the choir occupiesabout 30 feet, and the breadth 50 feet. The tomb of S. Mommolin was under the thirdarch to the right. An inscription was fixed to one ofthe piers, which was flattened for the purpose, and theiron rivets still remained at the beginning of the lastcentury. The font is carved on two sides only, showingthat it was originally fixed in a corner. The reliefsrepresent the Last Supper, and though the work isRenaissance, Gothic details appear in the room in
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FACADE OF S. CROIX 29 which it takes place. On the west wall of the northtransept a tomb was erected to an Abbot, judging byhis dress, but the shields showing his arms have beentorn away, and there is no inscription. The base ispanelled, and the upper part consists of an elaboratelytraceried arch and pediment, backed up with geometrictracery nearly to the top—a very fine example offourteenth-century work. The floor has been raised,as the sinking by the Abbots tomb shows ; the tiles atthe bottom look thirteenth century, with a modernborder. An inscription on the fagade recorded a restorationin 1586, under Julius Salviati, Abbot from 1565 to 1607.The inner archivolt of the central door has groups ofbirds biting quadrupeds above them ; the second hastwo rows of crouching men in a tug-of-war, the twofigures at the summit taller than the rest. Then comeseveral ornamented mouldings, on the first twistedbranches with climbing figures among them. On thenext order are signs of the zodiac, a

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