. Rheims and the battles for its possession . 85 The Hotel Nicolas Le Vergeur The interior building, which has a 17th century carriage entrance, offerstwo fine examples of 15th and 16th century architecture. It is the finestRenaissance structure in Rheims. The main front, incomparably the mostgraceful, was but little damaged by the bombardments (photo below). On the ground-floor the great arched doorway is divided by a woodenpost into two delicately carved compartments. Pilasters decorated with heads,flowers, birds, and horns of plenty frame the three stone-mullioned these runs a
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . 85 The Hotel Nicolas Le Vergeur The interior building, which has a 17th century carriage entrance, offerstwo fine examples of 15th and 16th century architecture. It is the finestRenaissance structure in Rheims. The main front, incomparably the mostgraceful, was but little damaged by the bombardments (photo below). On the ground-floor the great arched doorway is divided by a woodenpost into two delicately carved compartments. Pilasters decorated with heads,flowers, birds, and horns of plenty frame the three stone-mullioned these runs a frieze of trophies and medallions, with portraits of noblelords with upturned moustaches and pointed beards, and of great ladies withcollerettes and high head-dresses, gracious or haughty, standing well out inrelief. On the irst story, carved panels above the windows form a sort of broadfrieze of bas-reliefs representing men-at-arms or knights of the time of. HOTEL NICOLAS LE VERCEUR Francnis I. and Henri II. fighting at tournaments with lance, sword andpike. In one of the rooms overlooking the Rue Pluche were, a fine stone mantel-piece decorated with graceful delicate foliage; a timberwork ceiling withlarge and small beams, carrying panels decorated with scrolls, and15th century tile-flooring of terra-cotta, varnished and painted green andyellow. At the back of the courtyard, a building, supposed by some to be anold chapel, had been transformed into vast cellars and store-rooms. Theoaken ceiling of the latter, about fifty feet long and twenty-one broad, destroyedin 1918, was one of the most beautiful in the world. The beams, whoseextremities carried grotesque figures, were carved on all their sides withfoliage, dragons, birds, and fruits. The beams were connected by joists restingon stems, which represented apes, dragons, persons, and foliage. Between thejoists the panels had the appearance of scrolls. After visiting the Hotel Le Vergeur,
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