. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. xelles; St. Jac()ues,and the Dominicans, at .twcrp; St. Michelat Gand; Fuines near Bruges. 558. \.\\L!-ti/lei)yirnl eroiidalie was chieflye^ll)l^yed liy the ecclesiastics in llnishiiigstructures or in commencing others conceivedon SI) large a scale that their supeistiuctureiiehjiigs to a later period. The chief edificesof the style are the Kve-aisKd church of at Bois-le-duc, curious for the of the laige statues to th
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. xelles; St. Jac()ues,and the Dominicans, at .twcrp; St. Michelat Gand; Fuines near Bruges. 558. \.\\L!-ti/lei)yirnl eroiidalie was chieflye^ll)l^yed liy the ecclesiastics in llnishiiigstructures or in commencing others conceivedon SI) large a scale that their supeistiuctureiiehjiigs to a later period. The chief edificesof the style are the Kve-aisKd church of at Bois-le-duc, curious for the of the laige statues to the of the choir—it was cominenjed 1280. but evidently was finished in the latter half ofthe 15th century ; the choir of St. Siilpice at Diest ; the chinch of the Grand-Beguinage at Louvain, commenced 1305, noticed lor the manner in which the twelvepillars that divide it into three aisles have been strengthened by iron bars; the contempora-neous church of the Beguinage at ])iest ; the church at Aerschot, built 1331-7 by ; and, finest of all, N6:re Dame at Iluy, begun 1311, with a spKndld roseuindow. E 2. ClIUKCU OF THE POMINICAKS, OANR. 244 IIISlOllY OF .UUIiriECTritE. Book I. Io tlicse may be ndtlid tlie catlicdral at Saint Rombaut, bcffun about 1345-50; the naveand soutbern aisle of Sie. Gudule at Bruxelles; tlie front of the cathedral at rournai ; andSte. Croix at ! lege, the only churcb in Belgium, since the destruction of that at Lubes,that has tlic three aisles of e(]iial lieiLcht, and from which the arcbittct is reported to haveHed ratiicr tlian superintend tlie striking of the centering to the vaulting, which in thenave is corbelled out from the jiillais. 559. Some of the finest structures belonging to the atyle ocjival tertmhe axe; great part ofNoire Dame at Hal, r,41-1409; the |)orch and towers, co npleled 14S9, to St. Martin atCoiirtrai, 1390-1439; at Audenaerde, rebuilt, except the choir, 1414-1515,with a tower 295 ft
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