Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . i, quando sacrata fuit. In the same year he began rebuilding at the east The eastend, which from crypt to topmost vault he finished inthree years and three months, as he recorded by a re-petition of his Epitaph, substituting the word quartusfor annus in the second line. The body of the church was next attacked, in order The navethat it might be conformable and worthy of the two newends. But here I gather he did not entirely pull down 1 Gesta Sugerii Abbaiis^ cap. XXV. 62 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC [ch. iv Remainsof Sugerswork the old fabric1. This p
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . i, quando sacrata fuit. In the same year he began rebuilding at the east The eastend, which from crypt to topmost vault he finished inthree years and three months, as he recorded by a re-petition of his Epitaph, substituting the word quartusfor annus in the second line. The body of the church was next attacked, in order The navethat it might be conformable and worthy of the two newends. But here I gather he did not entirely pull down 1 Gesta Sugerii Abbaiis^ cap. XXV. 62 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC [ch. iv Remainsof Sugerswork the old fabric1. This part of his work, however, has notcome down to us : the bulk of the church was rebuiltfrom the designs of Pierre de Montereau between 1231and 1281, and of Sugers building we have only theeastern ambulatory aisle with the chapels, the crypt,and the west front with the two bays next to it. Thewhole church has been so much pulled about by suc-cessive restorations, and undoing of restorations, andrestoring afresh, that it is very difficult to make sure.
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