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148 NOTES ON EXAMPLES OP is extremel}'- tall, and enriched, at its angles, with clusters of shafts, finished at the top with a slope like that of a buttress. It has two stages above the roof of the transept : the upper one has a couplet of very long pointed windows, subdivided each by a shaft, and having blank quatrefoils in their heads, the whole enriched with shafts, of which the abacus is square. The stage below has smaller and plainer windows. The nave is higher than the chancel and transepts, and has aisles and flying buttresses. On the south side is a Flamboyant porch of rather good workmanship. The piers of the nave are plain cylinders, not very massive ; the square abacus has its angles taken off. The triforium is a blank arcade of three trefoil arches, and the clerestory consists of a single circle in each bay, with fohations, where it is unmutilated. The west window is a fine circle, with early radiating tracery. The whole church is vaulted with ribs. Under the western arch of the tower is a fine rood-arch of stonework, probably Flamboyant. JouY LE CoMTE (to the right hand of the line) has a church with a central tower and apsidal chancel. Anvers — at which place there is a minor station, has a very fine cross church, with a central tower, much resembling Chamj)agne in general character. The chancel is polygonal, and seems to correspond with our late Decorated ; on the north side is a Romanesque apsidal chapel, annexed to the eastern wall of the transept ; on the south side a large chapel of debased Flamboyant work occupies the same position. The tower has on each face a couplet of pointed windows, separated and flanked by semicyhndrical buttresses, supporting each a smaller shaft M^th a capital and abacus, and finished with a set-off". The outer order of the window has a shaft with a square abacus. The upper part of the tower has had some modern touches, and is roofed with gables. The nave has a triforium of five lancet arches, on shafts, in each bay, and clerestory of a single lancet. The piers are mostly cylindrical ; the square abacus prevails, but that of the piers has its edges taken off. The whole church is vaulted, with ribs. The rose window in the west end, and some other insertions, are Flamboyant. The bases of the piers are not unlike those in early English w^ork, and some of these have the claw or strip of foliage. The two cliurches last described will strike the traveller as diff'ering in