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Rh of Peterborough in England. An arrangement of this kind is not to be found in France, the nearest approach to it being found in some of the churches of Southern Gaul and of Poitou, as in the Cathedral of Poitiers (Fig. 98), where, though the side aisles are so high that there is no clerestory to the nave, yet they are enough lower than the nave to secure an agreeable proportional relationship of the parts. In St. Elizabeth, which dates from about the middle of the

FIG. 98. thirteenth century, though the building consists of but one story, the walls are divided externally into two stories, each of which is pierced with a row of windows. It is hardly necessary to say that such a violation of expressional integrity is distinctly opposed to Gothic principles.

In regard to façades, east ends, transept ends, and towers