. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ied figures foot to foot, with a mans headbetween them. Round the interior of the apse and choir of one bayruns an arcade on colonnettes, a good deal broken andrestored with plaster. The columns of the arch cut itirregularly, and appear to be later insertions. The church was consecrated in 1117 by BishopJourdain. The central tower may have been com-menced after the devastation of 1130, as there is around-headed arch remaining among the Tolosan,angular-headed openings in the lower stage of theoctagona
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ied figures foot to foot, with a mans headbetween them. Round the interior of the apse and choir of one bayruns an arcade on colonnettes, a good deal broken andrestored with plaster. The columns of the arch cut itirregularly, and appear to be later insertions. The church was consecrated in 1117 by BishopJourdain. The central tower may have been com-menced after the devastation of 1130, as there is around-headed arch remaining among the Tolosan,angular-headed openings in the lower stage of theoctagonal brick tower over the crossing. The entranceis by a door to the north in the second bay of the is pointed, with numerous brick mouldings whichfall on engaged marble colonnettes ; the bases and capsare of stone, the latter having two rows of fourteenth-century foliage. The leaves of the door are also on THE LOWER CHURCH 169 the whole of that period. In a wall at right angles is awalled-up door, the entrance to a building now de-stroyed. Its style is of the same period, but it bears. EASTERN END, LOWER CHURCH, ST. LIZIER. the date 1565 (!), showing how persistent tradition wasin the South of France. M. A. de Dion thinks thatthe gate was transformed into the cathedral in the 22 170 ST. GIRONS AND ST. LIZIER eleventh century, the central portion restored in thetwelfth, and the vaults of the nave and the centraloctagonal tower built in the fourteenth : a plausibleopinion enough, which meets the case, except as
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