Ypres and the Battles of Ypres

by Unknown

The façade of the south arm of the transept was of unusually great width.

ST. MARTIN'S CATHEDRAL, AS THE GERMAN SHELLS LEFT IT
In the background: The Cloth Hall.

SOUTH TRANSEPT OF THE CATHEDRAL, BEFORE THE WAR (photo, Antony, Ypres)

The central portal was surrounded by a polygonal rose-window and crowned with a high gable flanked by turrets. Above the side portals, the surface of which was decorated with arcading, were gables lighted by rose-windows. This part of the building was probably not earlier than the 14th century.

THE CATHEDRAL DOOR
Seen from the interior (photo, André Schelker).

There were no radial chapels in this great church. A circulating gallery running through the buttresses formed an uninterrupted passage around the building.