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. 164-167.
ST. QUENTIN : HOTEL DE VILLE
(Benoist)
N its fine Gothic Hôtel de Ville and the neighbouring church of St. Quentin, this ancient town puts forward two prominent claims to the notice of the artist and the architect. Like those of Saumur, Orleans, and Beaugency, the former building — partly flamboyant and partly Renaissance — is one of those small but interesting civic undertakings that were the outcome of the prosperity of North France and Belgium in the XVth and XVIth centuries. The exterior, with its arcade of seven pointed arches and the nine fine windows above them which still retain their
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original tracery, is in the flamboyant style. The interior, especially the mantelpiece in the main hall, shows the incoming influence of the Renaissance.
On September 21, 1914, the town was in the possession of strong German forces, but the Town Hall and the beautiful church do not appear to have suffered by bombardment or fire.
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