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22. PAIR OF WRESTLERS, A CISTERCIAN CHURCH PLAN, AND THE PLAN OF
THE CATHEDRAL OF CAMBRAI. FROM VILLARD DE HQNNECOlTRT'S TliXTBOOK,

One of the earliest cases in which we can form a live impression
of the personality of one of the great master-masons of the early
Gothic style is that of William of Sens, architect to the choir of
Canterbury Cathedral — a work as revolutionary in England as St,
Denis was in France. A fire had destroyed the old choir in 1174, as

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