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later date. The same motive is finely used at Vouziers where the towers 

 were never built. A central west tower is unusual outside Brittany. 



EXTERNAL GALLERIES. Facades are often subdivided horizontally, 

 like the south transept front of St Kustache, which has two arcaded 

 galleries. A single one of graceful design divides the west front of 

 Brie-Comte Robert (Fig. 99), and at Vetheuil there are as many as 

 three balustraded balconies, while at Angers Cathedral is a range of 

 statues in niches. But these horizontal divisions, and even such 

 marked cornices as those 

 over the portals of Dijon 

 and Vouziers, are all 

 paralleled in Gothic 

 churches, and at this 

 period a definite division 

 into storeys by systematic 

 use of orders is scarcely 

 more than hinted at in 

 facades, though more fre- 

 quent in towers. 



BUTTRESSES. The 

 vertical lines of towers 

 and buttresses are as a 

 rule the most important 

 ones in the elevations. 

 All types of Gothic but- 

 tress, both as regards plan 

 and outline, were used. 

 But attempts were made 

 to vary the plan, while 

 the faces and angles were 

 panelled or enriched with 

 canopy-work or orders. 

 The outline remained 

 much what it had been 

 hitherto, though the 

 weathering occasionally 



assumed such forms as domes or pediments. Very various are their 

 summits and pinnacles candelabra, vases, statues, balls, or miniature 

 lanterns and domed tempietti, and sometimes they terminate in flat 

 corniced tops. Structural flying buttresses are likewise rendered in 

 Renaissance detail, and the purely ornamental 'ones of lanterns and 

 turrets take the form of dolphins, scrolls, and so forth. 



TOWERS, TURRETS, &c. The familiar lines of mediaeval towers, 

 with their bold buttresses, angle turrets, belfry windows, and sturdy, 

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BRIE-COMTE-ROBERT : PARISH CHURCH. 

 WEST FRONT. 



