. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . 274 THE VALLEY OF THE TET AND CANIGOU Above it is a fair-sized window of two orders, withcolonnettes and a roll-moulding above. In place ofa hood-mould there is a semicircle of pale marblesurrounding an arch of small blocks placed anglewiselike sawteeth, an ornament also used round the apsewindows beneath a corbelled, round-arched THE WEST DOOR, CORNEILLA-LE-CONFLENT. The door is richly decorated. It has five orders, withtwisted and ornamented roll-mouldings ; in the anglesthree colonnettes
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . 274 THE VALLEY OF THE TET AND CANIGOU Above it is a fair-sized window of two orders, withcolonnettes and a roll-moulding above. In place ofa hood-mould there is a semicircle of pale marblesurrounding an arch of small blocks placed anglewiselike sawteeth, an ornament also used round the apsewindows beneath a corbelled, round-arched THE WEST DOOR, CORNEILLA-LE-CONFLENT. The door is richly decorated. It has five orders, withtwisted and ornamented roll-mouldings ; in the anglesthree colonnettes with well-carved caps, bearing greatresemblance to others at Elne, both in material andtechnique, and a carved tympanum with the Virginand Child seated within a vesica, which is supportedby two censing angels. The church stands on a plat- INTERIOR 275 form approached by steps and faced by a shady square,in which a few fine elm-trees flourish. (I found theone to the right had been cut down in 1911.) Within,the most noticeable thing is the retable of the high-altar, a notable production of Catalan art, the workof Maitre Jacques Cascall, of Berga, who made it in1345 and 1346. Dismantled at the time of the Revolu-tion, the panels were put up again without beingproperly arranged, so that the composition is are also several interesting tombs, a seatedfigure of the Madonna and one standing, an altar oncolonnettes, an
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