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332 re __ UNITED STATES: CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. Se VOL IX:
high “transept, there are ‘sude wines i in: the western front. Sucha
altars atid ass
“POE. OR. BAALHA.:
ss cil be cousidered a: one of
1 of cross, eeakeble. things, in this edifice: “Te the
Tn the 1385, a ofthese bumber “must ‘be added. two. wigdaws in the
baule was
3) in. the
that over the. south dour is thi irty fect by
curiuns manner with reti-
18 filled with stained glass.”
the wuidows of the centre, and
ot Bye sindow over the
entrance. render the uminous,
and. extremely ‘beauutu _
eihug of the ohare h is.all
with arog: or
high
* ten of which are-
and. two feet
one hundred
eit
was the
the
her - tra nsom ‘or |
also
because the
lo
squ’s
ener
swept
to, be
square
have
years.”” _
three crowned the
pile. overt
in octangu-.
. Ut was des:
ys
over the towe
bat .dues not exist
are of exquisite swarknrenabip } and were,
o admitof ac “cess, On the outside,
fer u. ist
. : form to help work-
1795, *
ery slight oc-
to-be, made.
fi
rst 0 the north end of. the transept is
the
; and fro m.the sacristy you enter the chap-_
‘This is a square room of siaty-one feet
ne
stone at a
it, but eternal buttresses.”
a Ht fell, when the centres
e third atyempt tine a suc-
ault remained. Fr mike chapter
pass tu the royal cloister “and convent,
the same. ang Jubn, and by im n given to
the order of St.
aliar of the ciich ‘here
the magnifice
‘Phe entrance ce todt, rota
thro’ and dceply recess:
which tne ‘eeven on,each side,
rom we extreine ones at the out-
daughter
tomb,
altar, are
the
armour,
their
the
recedes, va attains the
a. moderate perturé, Phe imen-
of these e« lumens are various,
with the must exquisite aelica
mausoleum is fe, but
petangular edifice. In ‘it
in design and execu-
tracery-work, and various orna--
the most, exquisi ite manner.—~
much to be lamented, that-such ae
remain: incomplete ; as no more
than vault, or roof, to make that, which -
open area, an. enclosed chapel. It bas-
that the church and the monastery were
of king John 1, Frown hie last will, howe-.
should appe ar, that some part of the latter
8 SUCC
ork of b
r Lew iade. Sousa
the western
require a
and
his-account of.
wit the | re-
med Py the .
at the same of t extract’
to
Ba hare. to the
but the monas- ~
contracted
ascept is twenty one 2 feet
just one-fifth of its-length, which is one
seven feet aud a-half, inside. measure.
of the body of-the church are. all plain,
ed nor excavated, as.is-often seen in
e mausoleum of king:
+ Pde Sousa’s work was published at Lisbon:in. 1622,;