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ECCLESIASTICAL ARCIIITECTUKE IN FltANCE. 143 reticulated tracery. The air of antiquity, and picturesque situation of this church, recommend it to the artist. Our next point, on resuming the road, is Angy ; a cross church with a fine early-pointed central tower, and a pol^'gonal apse of late transitional character, but with round-headed windows. The nave is without aisles, and, with tlio transepts, appears of an earlier date. The belfry window is double, with the fm'ther subdivision, as at Cauffry, by a single shaft, a trefoil occupying the head. The label over the arches, which are pointed, is billeted. The buttresses arc similar to those of Nogent, as is the corbel arcade above the belfry story. The roof of the tower has gables, one of wdiich presents a pierced circle of tracery, wdiich seems of late work. There is a curious squinch at the angle of the south transept, Woillez describes this cliurch, excepting the tower, which certainly deserves consideration as the immediate sequel of the rest. A comparison of this tower with those of Cauffry and ^N^ogent would be instructive. MouY — Has a fine cross church of pointed work throughout, combining much of the square Romanesque section of the French Gothic, w4th many of the characteristics of our own late Decorated, as it appears in plain village churches. The piers of the nave are extremely massive and short ; not six feet in height. They have no sculpture on the capitals of the shafts, nor even a string round their lower part, only a slight enlargement, with the gradual change of form necessary to fit them to the abacus. This is square, with the angles just taken off. The strings round the bases have a good pro- jection, but do not, as in some cases, present the early English water-moulding. The vaulting piers form a cluster of five from the ground, the middle one being the thickest. The abacus under the transverse rib projects diagonally as at Agnetz. The vaulting shafts have capitals, and the ribs have square edges and flowing sections ; in fact, the charac- teristics of our late Decorated and Perpendicular work. The triforium consists of two arches subdivided by a mullion, with a foliated circle in the head of each. The clerestory window has three lights, foliated, the central one highest, so as to leave no room for any further tracery. The transepts have a timber roof. The choir is polygonal, and has lancet windows surmounted by circles. The central tower, which is quite plain, and not higher than the ridges of the