. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. eporch of St. Germain des Pres, and in some other buildings, wherethey are considered as proofs of high antiquity. Over this porch or portico are two ranges, each of nineteen columns,supporting little arches, and above and below, and between theseranges are richly ornamented bands. On these bands, in several places,are indications, as if there had been figures of animals projecting di-rectly forwards, as you may frequently see in cases where they are intro-duced as water-spouts, and such figures are still seen at the back of thisfacade
. Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. eporch of St. Germain des Pres, and in some other buildings, wherethey are considered as proofs of high antiquity. Over this porch or portico are two ranges, each of nineteen columns,supporting little arches, and above and below, and between theseranges are richly ornamented bands. On these bands, in several places,are indications, as if there had been figures of animals projecting di-rectly forwards, as you may frequently see in cases where they are intro-duced as water-spouts, and such figures are still seen at the back of thisfacade. The annexed sketch may give you an idea of what I supposeto have been the original design of the composition. The plan of this building is a Latin cross, with aisles to the nave, twolittle chapels on each side of the straight part of the choir, and a verynarrow aisle behind the choir. A gallery or triforium runs round thebuilding at the usual height, and a second within the windows of theclerestory. In Gothic churches, the glass of the upper windows is. NOTRE DAME AT DIJON. 123 usually over the range of little shafts forming the triforium, here it isover the wall, forming the back of the gallery. At the rond point thisgallery occupies the whole width of the aisle below ; a very wide gal-lery, though a very narrow aisle ; and it is there lighted by circularwindows, but whether these belong to the original design I cannot end of the transept presents an arrangement somewhat similar tothat of St. Leger, at Soissons, with five equal lancet windows below, and9, rose window above. The work of the rose window fell out some timeago, and it is now quite naked. The five windows below are long andnarrow, and without any tracery : indeed there is no tracery in thechurch. They have externally six shafts, at some distance from the wall,supporting little pointed arches ; internally, there are only three shafts,which of course do not correspond with the windows; and they supportflat
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