pectator with an unfavorable
impression, which, on a nearer approach, the mutilated and encumbered
state of the western front is by no means calculated to remove. And yet
this western front, all degraded as it is, cannot fail to derive
importance from the great depth of the central door-way, which is no
less than forty-seven feet,[224] a projection exceeding that of the
galilee of Peterborough cathedral. It is in the interior that the beauty
of the church of Seez is conspicuous. The noble lofty arches below; the
moresque ornament, like those at Bayeux and at Coutances, in the
spandrils; the double lancet arches of the triforium placed in triplets;
and the larger pointed arches above, arranged two or three together, and
encircled with arches of the Norman form, though not of the Norman
style;--all these beauties, added to the enrichments of the sculptured
walls and windows of the aisles, render the cathedral, if not the first
of Norman religious buildings, at least in the number of those of the
first class,

"Extremi primorum, extremis usque priores."

NOTES:

[220] _Origines de Caen_, p. 5.

[221] _Abrege de la Vie des Eveques de Coutances_, p. 40.

[222] _Etat Geographique de Normandie_, p. 304.

[223] _Gallia Christiana_, XI. p. 684.

[224] The following are the dimensions of the other parts of the
building.

FEET.
Length of nave (including a space of sixty-four feet
under the towers) 218
Ditto of choir 57
Ditto of aisle behind the choir 14
Ditto of Lady-Chapel 25
Ditto of each transept 39
Width of nave and choir, including aisles 72
Ditto of Lady-Chapel 20
Ditto of transepts 30
Height of nave and choir 80
Ditto of north-west spire 232
Ditto of south-west ditto 210

THE END.

LEICESTER:

PRINTED BY THOMAS COMBE, JUNIOR.

INDEX OF PLATES.

NO. OF PLATE.
_Andelys_, Great House 15
_Anisy_, Church 67
_Arques_, Castle