. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . STEPS LEADING TO THE CHURCH. NO. 2. them, the staircase turns again, and, as far as I canremember, some twenty or thirty steps bring one up no ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. to the level of the top of the arch which forms therecess where the corpses are. Here there is anotherbeautiful Lombard doorway, with a small arcade oneither side which I thought English, rather than Italian,in character. An impression was produced upon bothof us that this doorway and the arcade on either sidewere by a different architect from the two lower arch-wa
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . STEPS LEADING TO THE CHURCH. NO. 2. them, the staircase turns again, and, as far as I canremember, some twenty or thirty steps bring one up no ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. to the level of the top of the arch which forms therecess where the corpses are. Here there is anotherbeautiful Lombard doorway, with a small arcade oneither side which I thought English, rather than Italian,in character. An impression was produced upon bothof us that this doorway and the arcade on either sidewere by a different architect from the two lower arch-ways, and from the inside of the church ; or at anyrate, that the details of the enrichment were cut by adifferent mason, or gang of masons. I think, however,the whole doorway is in a later style, and must havebeen put in after some fire had destroyed the earlierone. Opening the door, which by day is always un-locked, we found ourselves in the church I have said, it is of pure Lombard architecture,and very good of its kind ; I do not think it has beentouc
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