Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Monografie

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. Remy, Dieppe

Strukturtyp:: Kapitel

THE CHURCH OF ST. REMY, DIEPPE. The first stone of this Church was laid in 1522, and on the 25th of February, 1545, the choir and all the side chapels were finished; the Host was placed in it, and divine service solemnly performed. The building of St. Remy having been suspended about 1560, in consequence of the religious troubles, the edifice remained incomplete for nearly fifty years: the choir alone was entirely finished. Only some pillars of the nave were yet erected : large clumsy pillars, in the style of those in the churches of Holland. It was not till 1603 that the work was resumed. The nave was not completely erected and covered in till 1663. The portal looking towards the sea, had been finished in 1643. As for the grand portal, that of its two towers, which is on the side towards the sea, was built in 1633. The other, which was begun in 1630, was not com pletely erected till 1686. These portals and towers, as well as all the portions erected in the seven teenth century, are in the bastard Italian style ; it is a kind of Frenchified Palladian style, a mixture of various orders; grooved ornaments, mixed with triglyphs, and what are called metopes, forming altogether a most heavy and ungraceful combination. At the entrance of the church, there is a small holy-water vessel, under the southern tower. As all the Cicerone show it to strangers, and as many antiquaries, among them Mr. Dawson Turner, have judged it worthy of attention, we must say a few words concerning it; “ though, to tell the truth,” says M. M. L. Vitel, in his History of the Town of Dieppe, “ it does not appear to me to be so very important as it is represented. Strange characters, which belong to no alphabet, are sculp tured round this vessel. Between the characters there are small bishop's mitres. There are seven characters, and seven mitres, placed alternately. Attempts have been made to decipher and explain these characters. If I might hazard a conjec ture, I should say that these characters are figures badly formed, and that the unskilfulness of the workman is the only cause of the mystery.”

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