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On the restoration of religious order in 1801, the Collegiate Church of St Paul, a cruciform structure of ample dimensions with a large cloister and chapter house, but, externally at least, presenting few de- partures from the stereotyped form of a Belgian church, beca,me the cathedral.
Although of ancient foundation, dating from the episcopate of Heraclius, Bishop of Liege in the middle of the tenth century, no part of the present structure is anterior to the end of the thirteenth. The earlies...t parts are the choir, the transepts, the chapter house, and the piers and arches of the nave ; the latest, the clerestory and vaulting of the nave, which, were it not known that they were in progress in 1528, might be assigned to a much eariier period, since the window tracery is of the geometrical instead of .
the flowing kind. We may assume, therefore, that the original design was followed.
Of the western tower, the ground storey — i.e. as far as the spring of the nave roof — ^is Original ; the belfry stage with its coupled lancet windows, its comer pinnacles, and its spire constructed on the model of the principal one of the destroyed cathedral, is a work of 1813, and, as may be guessed from its date, of exceedingly poor design.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
On the restoration of religious order in 1801, the Collegiate Church of St Paul, a cruciform structure of ample dimensions with a large cloister and chapter house, but, externally at least, presenting few de- partures from the stereotyped form of a Belgian church, beca,me the cathedral.
Although of ancient foundation, dating from the episcopate of Heraclius, Bishop of Liege in the middle of the tenth century, no part of the present structure is anterior to the end of the thirteenth. The earlies...t parts are the choir, the transepts, the chapter house, and the piers and arches of the nave ; the latest, the clerestory and vaulting of the nave, which, were it not known that they were in progress in 1528, might be assigned to a much eariier period, since the window tracery is of the geometrical instead of .
the flowing kind. We may assume, therefore, that the original design was followed.
Of the western tower, the ground storey — i.e. as far as the spring of the nave roof — ^is Original ; the belfry stage with its coupled lancet windows, its comer pinnacles, and its spire constructed on the model of the principal one of the destroyed cathedral, is a work of 1813, and, as may be guessed from its date, of exceedingly poor design.
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