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Rh The development of the profiles of string-courses in France constitutes one of the most interesting branches of our subject. The string-courses of the eleventh century were

FIG. 126. always simple, and nearly always retained the flat upper surface that had been characteristic of classic mouldings, being either bevelled or very simply moulded beneath. The profiles (Fig. 126) from the small Church of Nogens-les-Vierges, near Senlis, sufficiently illustrate their character.

FIG. 127.

In the earliest transitional buildings the same forms were retained, as at a, Fig. 127, a profile from St. Evremont at Creil, where the string is carried on corbels. But the early Gothic