The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... building dating from Anglo - Saxon times , was erected in the reign of Edward IV . , and is a good specimen of Perpendicular . market - hall , the post office , the court - house , the temper Among the other principal public buildings ...
... building dating from Anglo - Saxon times , was erected in the reign of Edward IV . , and is a good specimen of Perpendicular . market - hall , the post office , the court - house , the temper Among the other principal public buildings ...
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... buildings are of primary architectural interest . The Groote Kerk or Laurenskerk is a Gothic brick structure of the ... building , originally erected in 1662-63 as the assembly house of Schieland , was burned down in 1864 , most of the ...
... buildings are of primary architectural interest . The Groote Kerk or Laurenskerk is a Gothic brick structure of the ... building , originally erected in 1662-63 as the assembly house of Schieland , was burned down in 1864 , most of the ...
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... building of new quays and repairing - docks for large vessels is in active progress ; the port is being dredged and deepened ; and schemes are under considera- tion for a slip , a petroleum dock , and corn elevators.1 Rouen has regular ...
... building of new quays and repairing - docks for large vessels is in active progress ; the port is being dredged and deepened ; and schemes are under considera- tion for a slip , a petroleum dock , and corn elevators.1 Rouen has regular ...
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... building in the town , the cathedral of Notre Dame , whose vast pile , erected between 1200 and 1220 by an architect called Ingelram or Enguerrand , underwent so many alterations , restorations , and extensions that it took its fiual ...
... building in the town , the cathedral of Notre Dame , whose vast pile , erected between 1200 and 1220 by an architect called Ingelram or Enguerrand , underwent so many alterations , restorations , and extensions that it took its fiual ...
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... building taken altogether pre- sents in its general lines the most perfect unity - a unity which even the modern addition of a façade with two bell towers has failed to mar , though no regard was had to the original plans . St Ouen is ...
... building taken altogether pre- sents in its general lines the most perfect unity - a unity which even the modern addition of a façade with two bell towers has failed to mar , though no regard was had to the original plans . St Ouen is ...
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