. Rheims and the battles for its possession . is perfectly regular, has three stories: the low-est, formed of great arches, rests on massive pillars; the triforium, formedof two, four, five, or six arcades, extends round the entire building; the hightwin-bay windows are surmounted with a six-leaved rose-window. The pillars, which have been likened to a row of antique columns, arecomposed of a great cylindrical shaft, reinforced by four smaller engagedcolumns, standing on an octagonal base. The pillars which follow the first bay of the nave and carry one of thecorners of the towers, as also the
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . is perfectly regular, has three stories: the low-est, formed of great arches, rests on massive pillars; the triforium, formedof two, four, five, or six arcades, extends round the entire building; the hightwin-bay windows are surmounted with a six-leaved rose-window. The pillars, which have been likened to a row of antique columns, arecomposed of a great cylindrical shaft, reinforced by four smaller engagedcolumns, standing on an octagonal base. The pillars which follow the first bay of the nave and carry one of thecorners of the towers, as also the fourpillars of the transept square, are moremassive. The capitals of the pillars and of thecolumns (see photo opposite) are mostbeautifully decorated. The dominating sub-ject of their decoration is natural foliage(vine, oak, thistle, ivy, ranunculus, fig-tree).Occasionally, human or animal figures ormonsters, and scenes from nature, thedainty Vintage scene on the capital ofCAPITAL in THE NAVE the sixth pillar on the right of the nave,. 53 are interspersed. The ornamenta-tion of the capitals of six pillars ofthe first hays is more elaborate andmore recent in style. These capi-tals are not. like those of the otherpillars, divided on the four flankingcolumns into two equal courses byan astragal, neither do they include,like some of the others, crockets,acanthus leaves and other conven-tional ornaments of an older andless realistic style. The 13th and 14th centurystained-glass of the high windowsrepresents, on two superimposedlines, figures of kings of Franceand archbishops of Rheims. Someof the glass was broken, but thefinest was saved. In the third and fourth baysthere was formerly a square Laby-rinth, flanked at the corners bypolygonal compartments. In the in-terior, a line of white tiles borderedwith black stones ran from one side,and after complicated windingsreached a central compartment. Atthe corners of the compartmentswere figures of the four first archi-tects of the
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