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Chapter II: Book III: France

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I. Division of subject—Pointed arches—Provence—Churches at 39
Avignon, Arles, Alet, Fontifroide, Maguelonne, Vienne—
Circular churches—Towers—Cloisters

II. AQUITANIA—Churches at Périgueux, Souillac, Angoulême, 64
Alby, Toulouse, Conques, Tours—Tombs

III. ANJOU—Cathedral at Angers—Church at Fontevrault— 81
Poitiers—Angiovine spires

IV. AUVERGNE—Church at Issoire—Clermont—Fortified Church at 89
Royat

V. BURGUNDY—Church of St. Martin d’Ainay—Cathedral at le 94
Puy-en-Velay—Abbeys of Tournus and Cluny—Cathedral of
Autun—Church of St. Menoux

VI. FRANKISH PROVINCE—Exceptional buildings—Basse Œuvre, 104
Beauvais—Montier-en-Der

VII. NORMANDY—Triapsal Churches—Churches at Caen— 110
Intersecting Vaulting—Bayeux

VIII. FRANKISH ARCHITECTURE—Historical notice—The pointed 120
arch—Freemasonry—Mediæval architects

IX. FRENCH GOTHIC CATHEDRALS—Paris—Chartres—Rheims—Amiens— 130
Other Cathedrals—Later style—St. Ouen’s, Rouen

X. Gothic details—Pillars—Windows—Circular Windows—Bays— 161
Vaults—Buttresses—Pinnacles—Spires—Decoration—
Construction—Furniture of Churches—Domestic architecture

BOOK IV.—BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.

I. Historical notice—Old Churches—Cathedral of Tournay— 187
Antwerp—St. Jacques at Liège

II. Civil Architecture—Belfries—Hall at Ypres—Louvain— 199
Brussels—Domestic architecture

III. HOLLAND—Churches—Civil and Domestic Buildings 206

BOOK V.—GERMANY.

I. INTRODUCTORY—Chronology and Historical notice 209

II. Basilicas—Plan of St. Gall—Church at Reichenau— 213
Romain-Motier—Granson—Church at Gernrode—Trèves—
Hildesheim—Cathedrals of Worms and Spires—Churches at
Cologne—Other Churches and Chapels—Double Churches—Swiss
Churches

III. CIRCULAR CHURCHES—Aix-la-Chapelle—Nymwegen—Fulda—Bonn— 247
Cobern

IV. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE—Lorsch—Palaces on the Wartburg— 255
Gelnhausen—Houses—Windows

V. POINTED STYLE IN GERMANY—History of style—St. Gereon, 264
Cologne—Churches at Gelnhausen—Marburg—Cologne Cathedral—
Freiburg—Strasburg—St. Stephen’s, Vienna—Nuremberg—
Mühlhausen—Erfurt

VI. Circular Churches—Church Furniture—Civil Architecture— 292
Town-hall at Brunswick

VII. NORTHERN GERMANY—BRICK ARCHITECTURE—Churches at Lubeck— 302
in Brandenburg—in Ermeland—Castle at Marienburg

BOOK VI.—SCANDINAVIA.

I. Sweden—Norway—Denmark—Gothland—Round Churches—Wooden 313
Churches

BOOK VII.—ENGLAND.

I. INTRODUCTORY 335

II. SAXON ARCHITECTURE 341

III. ENGLISH MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE—Plans of English 345
Cathedral Churches—Vaults—Pier Arches—Window tracery—
External Proportions—Diversity of Style—Situation—
Chapter-Houses—Chapels—Parish Churches—Details—Tombs—Civil
and Domestic Architecture

IV. ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND—Affinities of Style—Early 418
Specimens—Cathedral of Glasgow—Elgin—Melrose—Other
Churches—Monasteries

V. IRELAND—Oratories—Round Towers—Domical Dwellings—Domestic 443
Architecture—Runic Cross Decoration

BOOK VIII.—SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

I. SPAIN—INTRODUCTORY 460

II. Romanesque Churches at Naranco, Roda, and Leon—Early 464
Spanish Gothic: Churches at Santiago, Zamora, Toro, Avila,
Salamanca, and Tarragona—Middle Pointed style: Churches at
Toledo, Burgos, Leon, Barcelona, Manresa, Gerona, Seville—
Late Gothic style: Churches at Segovia, Villena—Moresco
style: Churches at Toledo, Ilescas, and Saragoza

III. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE—Monastic Buildings—Municipal 502
Buildings—Castles

IV. PORTUGAL—Church of Batalha—Alcobaça—Belem 507

PART III.—SARACENIC AND ANCIENT AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.

BOOK I.

I. SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES; OR, 512
BYZANTINE SARACENIC—Introduction

II. SYRIA AND EGYPT—Mosques at Jerusalem—El Aksah—Dome of 516
the Rock—Mosque at Damascus—Egypt—Mosques at Cairo—Mosque
at Kerouan—Other African buildings—Mecca

III. SPAIN—Introductory Remarks—Mosque at Cordoba—Palace at 542
Zahra—Churches at Sta. Maria and Cristo de la Luz at
Toledo—Giralda at Seville—Palace of the Alcazar—The
Alhambra—Sicily

IV. TURKEY—Mosques of Mahomet II.—Suleimanie and Ahmedjie 556
Mosques—Mosques of Sultanas Validé, and of Osman III.—
Civil and Domestic Architecture—Fountains, &c.

V. PERSIA—Historical notice—Tombs at Bagdad—Imaret at 567
Erzeroum—Mosque at Tabreez—Tomb at Sultanieh—Bazaar at
Ispahan—College of Husein Shah—Palaces and other
Buildings—Turkestan

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