Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Persistent identifier:: 1460979038851

Title:: Beauties of continental architecture

Sub title:: in a series of views of ancient cathedrals and other remarkable public buildings, in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy

Artist/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Publisher:: M. A. Nattali

Place of publication:: London

Year of publication:: 1843

Language:: english; french

Structure type:: Monograph

Owning institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Physical location:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Shelfmark:: 1Kc 1099

License:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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Title:: The Cathedral of Beauvais

Structure type:: Chapter

THE CATHEDRAL OF BEAUVAIS. Beauvais, Ccesaromagus is situated on the Therain or Tairsin. In ancient chronicles it is called Civitas Bellovacorum or Belvagorum. The Cathedral was founded in 991, by Herve, fortieth Bishop of Beauvais, and the building continued by his successors. In 1284, the great arches of the Choir fell down, and mass was not performed for forty years ; so that the date of 1324 may be reasonably assigned to the present choir. On the arches of the transept, which were begun in 1500, are the dates of 1575, 1577, 1578, and 1580. This Cathedral is dedicated to St. Peter; and the Choir is celebrated for its size, and fine style of architecture. It has ten pillars on each side in its length, and chapels all round. “ On entering the church,” says Mr. Wood, “ the great window, with its splendid rose window terminating the vista, displays all its beauties.—Passing down the Church, the view of the Choir is really sublime. The slender columns, the triple range of windows, and the loftiness of the upper ones, have an appearance almost supernatural. To judge by the eye, I should say that the ridge of the vaults does not fall short of 160 feet; but the columns are too slender, the arches between them too narrow, and the vault too high.” To have a church complete and perfect in all its parts, you must take the Choir of Beauvais, the Nave of Amiens, the Portal of Rheims, the Towers of Notre Dame, at Paris, and the Steeples of Chartres.—Such a combination would form the most magnificent building of the kind in Europe. A

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