Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1460979038851

Titel:: Beauties of continental architecture

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

Künstler/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Verleger/Verlag:: M. A. Nattali

Erscheinungsort:: London

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1843

Sprache:: englisch; französisch

Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Besitzende Institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Standort:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Signatur:: 1Kc 1099

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

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Titel:: The Church of St. Jacques, Dieppe

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THE CHURCH OF ST. JACQUES, DIEPPE. Of all the monuments which command the town, the most ancient, and the most interesting as a work of art, is St. James’s Church. It is a large edifice, the proportions of which are very fine, and the plan simple and noble. The exterior has some fine parts well sculptured, and in the interior there are remains of rich and splendid decorations. But we see also the traces of the spoliation and profana tion which the edifice has suffered: nevertheless, it is still in a sufficiently good state of preservation to give pleasure and advantage on studying it minutely. The greater part of the building is of the fourteenth century ; but some of its parts are still more ancient. In fact, there is no doubt that there was an abbey of St. Catherine on the very site now occupied by St. Jacques. No record is to be found of the precise time of the building of the Abbey of St. Catherine; but we know that it had fallen into ruin in 1250, “ with the exception of two of its chapels,” say the rolls of the Viscounty, “ which were made use of to commence the building of St. Jacques in 1250.” Now those two chapels are the two transepts, or, at least, the two bays next the transepts. It must be confessed that this is but a supposition ; but it accounts for the singular incongruity between the two extremities of the cross aisles and the other parts of the building; and though the project for building St. Jacques seems to have been decided on in 1250, it had not made much progress in 1300, and the whole was not completed till 1443. To judge, at one glance, of St. Jacques as a whole, you should enter by the great door, whence you have a view of the entire length of the building. It is about 300 feet long from the entrance of the nave to the extremity of the chancel, or Chapel of the Virgin. The breadth of the body of the Church is from 00 to 75 feet. The nave is divided into six bays of a good height, and which are in perfect harmony with the upper gallery, some arcades of which have been decorated at a period subsequent to their original erection. The choir, as far as its semicircular end, is only half as long as the nave : it is composed of three bays or arcades; five others, which are narrower, form the semicircular end. The galleries of the choir, like those of the nave, were ornamented at a period subsequent to their erection. Round the choir and the nave there is a suite of nineteen chapels, each of which corresponds with one of the bays. Of all these chapels, formerly so richly adorned, now so naked, so poor, and abandoned to the dust, that of the Virgin was the pride of the Church; and, even now, no other part of the edifice is comparable to it as a work of art.

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