. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ELEVENTH-CENTURY CAP, CLOISTER, ST. LIZIER. of four colonnettes, above which a quatrefoil is piercedin the wall. The east side has six arches without thecentral pier. The arches are all round, but while theeast side is entirely unmoulded, and the north has asimple chamfer, those on the other side have a roll onthe angle, with quarter-round sinkings on each moulding runs round all the piers at the height of the. 174 ST. GIRONS AND ST. LIZIER abaci, which are ornamented; most of the bases havesp
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . ELEVENTH-CENTURY CAP, CLOISTER, ST. LIZIER. of four colonnettes, above which a quatrefoil is piercedin the wall. The east side has six arches without thecentral pier. The arches are all round, but while theeast side is entirely unmoulded, and the north has asimple chamfer, those on the other side have a roll onthe angle, with quarter-round sinkings on each moulding runs round all the piers at the height of the. 174 ST. GIRONS AND ST. LIZIER abaci, which are ornamented; most of the bases havespurs, and many of them deep hollow caps are elaborately carved, with great variety ;the variations in the style of the profiles of the archesand of the bases suggest repairs or a partial rebuildingin the twelfth or thirteenth century. The capital ofthe group of four pillars illustrated is plainly work ofthe eleventh century. The other two are twelfth,one being of a more developed type of design thanthe other. In the front of the drawing showingseveral arches is a cap of another type, of which thereare several examples, and farther along the row aretwo types of interlacings, both of which are are also a few caps of a later date, and of a typebased upon acanthus foliage treated very colonnettes (of which only a few are missing) areof varicoloured marbles, sometimes so much weatheredas to look like the fibres of wood. On three sides astring-course runs round the int
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