. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . bottom,and two hanging rings on a circular toothed ornamentserve as handles, though there is also an upright handleand a lock. The arrangement of the door is repre-sented on one of the early carvings of the piers, sug-gesting that it is earlier than the doorway in which itis set. On the north side is a two-light window, the groundfalling steeply here. Of the two other doors, one leadsinto the chapter-house, now used as sacristy, and theother to the street through buildings now used asMairie. The subs
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . bottom,and two hanging rings on a circular toothed ornamentserve as handles, though there is also an upright handleand a lock. The arrangement of the door is repre-sented on one of the early carvings of the piers, sug-gesting that it is earlier than the doorway in which itis set. On the north side is a two-light window, the groundfalling steeply here. Of the two other doors, one leadsinto the chapter-house, now used as sacristy, and theother to the street through buildings now used asMairie. The substructures consisted of cloistralapartments, the Chapel of S. Laurence (in which thereare traces of paintings), and passages from the Canonshouses, which lay to the north. There was a school connected with the cathedral atElne in the early years of the twelfth century, held inthe cloister, the teachers living in the upper story(destroyed in 1827). The communal school is nowhoused close by. The shafts are very varied in design—some octa-gonal, many twisted and channelled, some panelled as. THE CLOISTER 299 if for the insertion of mosaic, and some carved withimbrications, interfacings, or leaf patterns, the lastbeing of later date. All the bases have claws. A good
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