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IV.
POINTED CONSTRUCTION IN SPAIN
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of a Romanesque building. The opening is merely a window not more than half-filling the space between the piers, whereas, as we have seen, in the developed Gothic

FIG. 109.

of France, the clerestory opening is an intercolumniation rather than a window in a wall. Moreover, externally, in this same building there is no pier buttress, and consequently the heads of the flying buttresses are received