[402] Noticias de los Arq. de España, i. 1-14.
[403] Esp. Sag., vol. xxxvii. p. 86-7.
[404] Recuerdos y Bellezas de Esp., Ast. y Leon, p. 76 and 244.
[405] See the account of it in the Historia Compostellana, lib. i. cap. 78.
[406] See p. [331]. I am not certain as to the dedication. I refer to the small church near San Pedro de los Galligans.
[407] For illustration, &c., see [p. 366], and [Plate XXI.]
[408] Both these churches are planned upon precisely the same system of proportions founded upon the equilateral triangle. Taking the width of the nave and aisles as the base, the apex of the triangle gives the centre from which the vault of the nave is struck; and all the subordinate divisions are also so exactly marked that there is hardly room for doubt that the system was distinctly recognised, and intentionally acted on.
[409] The Monistrol I refer to is the village between S. Etienne and Le Puy, and not the place of the same name at the foot of Monserrat, in Cataluña.
[410] E.g., St. Albans, Winchester Cathedral, St. Cross Chapel.
[411] The parallel holds good in very small matters. At Westminster the clergy and choir assemble in the choir, and begin the service so soon as the clock strikes. In several Spanish churches the same custom obtains. I think it would be a great gain if the metal screens across the transepts were moved so as to form the narrow central passage from the choir to the altar, so common in Spain. They would then have some meaning and use, which they certainly have not now.