. International studio. was to bind the three portals together into one This constituted the lowermost story, for the wall was high and blank abovethese five round the second story, ar-chitecturally speaking, wasan arcade of fifteen arches,with slender shafts to carrythem, and an arcade of fivearches to the north of thisand kept within the widthof the slender this, again, rose thefive arched windows, andabove those the gable, filledwith an arcade followingthe rake, even as now. Our photograph. Fig. i,shows a wholly new struc-ture built slightly in ad-vance of the ol
. International studio. was to bind the three portals together into one This constituted the lowermost story, for the wall was high and blank abovethese five round the second story, ar-chitecturally speaking, wasan arcade of fifteen arches,with slender shafts to carrythem, and an arcade of fivearches to the north of thisand kept within the widthof the slender this, again, rose thefive arched windows, andabove those the gable, filledwith an arcade followingthe rake, even as now. Our photograph. Fig. i,shows a wholly new struc-ture built slightly in ad-vance of the old church andcarried from corner to cor-ner without break, so thatthe formerly projectingdoorpiece on the south andthe campanile on the northare alike masked by thisnew frontispiece. The ar-cade of fifteen arches abovethe middle doorway is theold one, though rebult,and so is the arcade of fivearches above the northerndoorway, while that of fourarches above the southerndoorway is, with its pilas-ters and crowning gable, a. NORTH PORTAL ST. BARTHOLOMEWS PHILIP MARTINY, SCULPTOR MkIM, mead & WHITE, ARCHITECTS XIX 5/. Bartholomew s Facade task of designing the maindoorway, with its enrichedarchitraves and pilasters,its highly wrought lintel forthe doorway proper, itsstoried tympanum and thebronze valves French, indeed, askedand had the sen^ices of ] OConnor, towhom he has always givenmost willingly full credit fora great share of the southern doorway withall its detailed richness,nearly as described abovein the case of the main one,was the work of Mr. Her-bert Adams; that of thenorthern doorway was, inlike manner, that of Martiny. It is prob-able, however, that themore simple decorativeparts, such as the sculp-tured voussoirs of the outerarch in the northern andsouthern portals, the capi-tals of the columns, andprobably the enrichedmoldings and such likepurely architectural orna-mentation, are rather thework of the architects them-selves an
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