Days near Paris . eur de Mont-morency, and near it the XIV. c. statue of Mathieu Montmorency, Admiral and High Chamberlain ofFrance, 1304. A tower, called La Baronnie^ marks thesite of the priory of St. Honorine. 27^. Poissy {Hotel de Rouen^ right of station: veryhumble), on the left bank of the Seine, was the seat of avery ancient royal residence, destroyed by Charles V. IfSt. Louis was not born here he was certainly baptizedI^re, and was wont to sign himself Louis de Poissy. Close to the railway, in the centre of the tiny town,rises the noble Church. Late romanesque, with flamboyantadd
Days near Paris . eur de Mont-morency, and near it the XIV. c. statue of Mathieu Montmorency, Admiral and High Chamberlain ofFrance, 1304. A tower, called La Baronnie^ marks thesite of the priory of St. Honorine. 27^. Poissy {Hotel de Rouen^ right of station: veryhumble), on the left bank of the Seine, was the seat of avery ancient royal residence, destroyed by Charles V. IfSt. Louis was not born here he was certainly baptizedI^re, and was wont to sign himself Louis de Poissy. Close to the railway, in the centre of the tiny town,rises the noble Church. Late romanesque, with flamboyantadditions, it has a most striking outline. The older por-tions—the nave, the apsidal choir with its two apsides, and 146 DA YS NEAR PARIS the west and central towers, date from the XI. c, thoughthe massive west tower, supporting a conical stone spire,and the two first bays of the nave, were rebuilt, on the oldlines, in the XVII c. The nave chapels are XV. c. Thewest tower formerly served as a porch, but this is now. WEST TOWER, POISSY. blocked up, and the principal entrance is by a magnificentearly XVI. c. porch on the south, with open arches on twosides : it has been injured externally by coarse restoration,but is untouched within. CHURCH OF POISSY 147 The spire of the central clock tower is of wood, like somespires of Norman belfries in an analogous situation, and thereis no reason to suppose that it was originally designed in open story of the octagonal belfry is composed of coupledarcades on the larger, and of simple arcades on the smaller base of this clock tower does not support a cupola or lan-tern, like the central towers of the Rhine or of Normandy ; it isonly the lower story of the belfry above the vaulting of the nave.— VioUet-le-Duc. The interior is exceedingly beautiful and has been wellrestored. A number of early statues of saints are full ofquaint character. The romanesque chapel on the north ofthe choir contains a fragment of the font in whi
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