Page:History of Architecture in All Countries Vol 1.djvu/615

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

Bk. II. Ch. X. FURNITURE OF CHURCHES. 583 of St. Ouen's (of which we can alone judge from drawings) and of the larger cathedrals ; though of these we are able to form some idea by following out the design of the lateral screens, of which they formed a part. If to these we add the altars of the minor chapels, with the screens that divided them from the nave, the tombs of wealthy prelates and nobles, the oi-gan galleries, with their spiral stairs and richly-carved 435. Kood-Screen fioni ihe JNladelaiue at Troyes. (From Ariiaud, " Voyage dafis I'Aube.") instrument cases, and all the numberless treasures of art accumulated by wealth and piety, we may form some idea of what a Mediaeval cathedral really was, though scarcely one now exists in any j^art of Europe in an entire state. Domestic Architecture. It is probable that specimens remain sufficient to elucidate in an archaeological point of view the progress of domestic architecture in