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SPANISH ARCHITECTURE.
Part II.

266 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Part II. windows IS a so peculiar in such a situation, and altogether there is a Southern feeling about the whole design which we miss at Leon Oviedo IS another example of the same class, and generally it may be said that the Spanish cathedrals which were commenced in the first half of the 18th century are all more or less distinctly French in design. But the Si)aniards were again working themselves 710. Compartiiieut of Nave, Burgos CatLe>!ral. free from their mastei-s, and to- wards the end of the century and during the next erected a class of churches with wide naves and widely-spaced piers which were . veryunlike anything to be found 111 l^rauce; and, if they cannot be considered as original, their affinities must be looked for rather in Italy than to the north of the Pyrenees. Among these churches the most remarkable group is that still 709. Bay of Choir. Leou Uathedral. (From Street.)