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. 208-211.
YPRES : CATHEDRAL, INTERIOR
(T. S. Boys)
F the Church of St. Martin at Ypres — formerly the Cathedral — little but ruins now remain. It shared with the beautiful Cloth-hall the fury of the German cannonading, as purposeless as it was cruel. The building, though never completed, was one of the finest religious edifices in Belgium, and, as Coney’s drawing indicates, was particularly remarkable for the beauty of its interior fittings — its pulpit, the choir-stalls, shown in the Plate, and the frescoes in the choir, despite the bad handling of the latter in their restoration at the beginning of the last century. The portal
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of the South transept was later in date than the body of the church, and was rich in carving and figure-sculpture. The West tower — to which the spire was never added — was of 1434.
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