Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . s(Plate XLVIII). The third and fourth stages are alsosquare, and are a good deal set back from the face ofthose below. The fourth storey has on each face awindow with a steep gable over it like those in thesteeples of Chartres, Vendome, and some early towers inAquitaine, at Brantdme and elsewhere. The upper partis octagonal in two receding stages, but the peculiarity isthat the octagon is not set with sides parallel to thesquare below but obliquely, so that an angle comes inthe middle of each face of the square, and at eachcorner of it. The g
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . s(Plate XLVIII). The third and fourth stages are alsosquare, and are a good deal set back from the face ofthose below. The fourth storey has on each face awindow with a steep gable over it like those in thesteeples of Chartres, Vendome, and some early towers inAquitaine, at Brantdme and elsewhere. The upper partis octagonal in two receding stages, but the peculiarity isthat the octagon is not set with sides parallel to thesquare below but obliquely, so that an angle comes inthe middle of each face of the square, and at eachcorner of it. The general outline is not very satis-factory, nor are the stages very well proportioned toone another. There are three steeples in Limoges with the octagonset obliquely in the same way, obviously a local fashion. Limoges. They have however the addition of an octagonal orround pier over each angle of the square. Two of them,that of S. Michel aux Lions (Plate XLIX) and that ofS. Pierre have spires : that of the cathedral, built from S. Michel Plate XLIX. m ? --? i \pt i. c. j. S. MICHEL AUX LIl »\s -LIMOGES Plate L i *\ * - > *
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