Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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I read thus : hoc pater albricvs nobile fecitopvs. On a border round the circle is another inscriptionin two elegiac lines : + QVI TE DEVOTVS ORO CVI SERVIO TOTVS+ MARTYR SCE DEI QVESO MEMENTO MEI. About 1200 the north-west tower, which had till thena spire of wood, received one of stone. It is to be seenin old prints, and is illustrated by Viollet-le-Duc4, whotells us that it was his sad lot to have to take it down toprevent its falling. It was never rebuilt, and the onlytower at present is the sister one at the south-west angle Thetowers 1 MM. Vitry and Briere, LEglise Abbatiale de S. Denis, p. 53. 2 Conferre consuevi cum Hierosolymitanis, et gradissime addiscere quibusConstantinopolitanae patuerunt gazae et Sanctae Sophiae ornamenta, utrumad comparationes illorum haec aliquid valere deberent. Gesta SugeriiAbbatis, cap. xxxn. 3 MM. Vitry and Briere (pp. cit. p. 67) suppose them to have been inthe pavement, for which they are quite unfit. 4 Diet. Rais. vol. V. pp. 435—438. Plate II
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T. G. J. SENLIS— The Choir ch. iv) THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 67 of the facade. The vanished spire had triangular taber- S. Denisnacles at the corners of the tower, and gabled spire-lightsbetween. The spirelets of these eight structures had thefront face upright and the back sloped. This deviceoccurs also in the spire at Senlis, which I imagine must

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