From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 156-159.
PARIS : CHURCH OF ST. SÉVERIN
(T. S. Boys)
NOTHER drawing of Boys’ gives us the opportunity of learning once more the appearance of one of the old buildings of Paris before it underwent, a few years later, a change for the worse. The little pinnacle on the roof, his sketch shows us, has now been replaced by a high spire of poor design, that speaks plainly, in its meagre detail and want of proportion, the middle of the XIXth century. Most of the original church was built in the last years of the XVth century. The Western entrance was added in 1837, when the XIIIth century porch of St.-Pierre-aux-Bœufs was
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(on the demolition of that church) removed and rebuilt there stone by stone. The interior treatment of St. Séverin, especially its vaulting, has a strong suggestion of our own Perpendicular style. Its chapels are decorated with mural paintings by various modern artists and of no very high degree of success.
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