. Rheims and the battles for its possession . e bombardments. On April 19. 1917, three large calibre shells, whichburst on the chevet, destroyed forty to fifty feet of it. At the same time, thebuttress jutting on the centre of the destroyed gallery lost its pinnacle, andbehind, an arch of the flying-buttress. The buttresses between the above-mentioned one and the corner of the South Transept Tower lost either acolonnette or their pinnacle with angel statue. 47 The slender spire which, before the War, rose above the chevet, was knownas the Angel Spire, on account of a bronze angel which surmoun
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . e bombardments. On April 19. 1917, three large calibre shells, whichburst on the chevet, destroyed forty to fifty feet of it. At the same time, thebuttress jutting on the centre of the destroyed gallery lost its pinnacle, andbehind, an arch of the flying-buttress. The buttresses between the above-mentioned one and the corner of the South Transept Tower lost either acolonnette or their pinnacle with angel statue. 47 The slender spire which, before the War, rose above the chevet, was knownas the Angel Spire, on account of a bronze angel which surmounted it, andwhich was removed in 1860 as unsafe. This spire, the work of Colard leMoine, was built in 1485, after the fire of 1481. Its pierced base with bal-ustrading was supported by eight leaden caryatids, some of which, in thepopular costume of the Louis XI. period, became deformed in consequence ofthe rotting of their oaken core. The fire of September 19, 1914, caused by the German shells, entirely de-stroyed the spire and its THE CHEVET IN 1919 The roof with the Angel Spire was destroyed. The bombardment in the spring of the following year further damaged thegallery, also causing fresh mutilations to the flying buttresses and the pinnaclesof the apse. A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round thechevet on a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading. Part of the original gallery whichsurrounded the entire building, level with the roof, still exists on the northernside. On October 12, 1914, a shell destroyed about twenty-five feet of the gal-lery round the chevet, which later was further damaged by another shell. 48 The Lateral Facade and South Transept This facade and transept {which should be seen from the courtyard of theArchbishops Palace) are identical, as a whole, with the northern facade andtransept (see pp. 28 and 42 >. The gallery at the springing of the roof of t
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