. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1«42.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 113 PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES IN POITIERS AND ANGOULEME: WITH SOME REMARKS ON EARLY ARCHITECTURE. By George Godwin Jun., , &c. ( Conlinued from page 7\.) ChapUr 2. Fig. The western front of Notre Dame la Grande of Poitiers, represented by the above engraving, (Fig. 4,) is a most interesting example of a class of peculiar to this part of France. Tbe possession of Stone easy to work, the greater inflaence
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1«42.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 113 PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES IN POITIERS AND ANGOULEME: WITH SOME REMARKS ON EARLY ARCHITECTURE. By George Godwin Jun., , &c. ( Conlinued from page 7\.) ChapUr 2. Fig. The western front of Notre Dame la Grande of Poitiers, represented by the above engraving, (Fig. 4,) is a most interesting example of a class of peculiar to this part of France. Tbe possession of Stone easy to work, the greater inflaence of Byzantine taste, as well as other circumstances, have produced a marked difference in the archi- tecture of various provinces, although proceeding froni the same type: thus while we find in Normandy buildings of simple severity, adorned exteriorly with little more than .ig-zags and rudely-sculptured cor- bels, we have here facades elaborately sculptured from tiie ground to the summit, presenting not merely highlyenriched and often very elegant capitals, borders, and scrolls, but multitudinous figures in all .maginahle positions, and in very high relief. The absence of the western towers, too, in the structures we are now speaking of, constitutes another marked difference from the Norman buildings. The date of the erection of Notre Dime is probably at the end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century , but the entrance front is unquestionably more recent. This part of the building, which is bounded by clusters of columns supporting two small circular turrets with conical stone roofs, is divided into three distinct stages by en- riched cornice,, and terminates in a broken pediment or gable, (so to speak.; which is also divided horizontally into two compartments. 1 he entrance doorway, which is recessed, is semicircular in the upper part, a^ are the arcades above containing figures; but the blank open- ing on either side of it has a pointed head with two small semicircular
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