It has a cross with the Agnus Dei in the centre (pierced), and four little window shapes in the angles with round-headed tympana and oblong piercings below.
On the side doors the tympana have the Agnus Dei, and that to the left has the Annunciation on brackets, one figure on each side of the door.
Sculptured subjects are introduced in thetympana of the smaller arches, and a richly carved stringcourse is carried across under a parapet which is placed over the doorway.
The tympana are sculptured on the left with the story of Dives and Lazarus, and on the right with a death-bed scene, where angels carry up the soul to Paradise.
Statues are set on corbels round the detached shafts, and again in the jambs of all the doorways, and the tympana and archivolts of the latter are everywhere crowded with sculpture.
Figures on either side support the ends of the lintels of the doors, but the tympana and the wall above for some feet are covered with pieces of sculpture, evidently taken down and refixed where they are now seen.
The carved leafage in the tympana of the canopied niches is admirable.
Sculptured figures of characters from the Old Testament appear in the tympana of the triforium.
Arches spring from the capitals of the piers, and in the tympana are set the triforium arcade.
Some of the subordinate arches are pointed, some round, and the tympana are everywhere filled with fine brick diapers.
The tympana of these porches are glazed instead of being filled in with stone.
The tympana of the choir triforium arches are filled with plate tracery, quatrefoil and cusped.
A favourite device on carved tympana above portals was the Last Judgment.
The tympana of the two pediments and all the metopes were enriched with the finest sculpture, and were realized, designed, and executed by Pheidias and his pupils.
The tympana above this is pierced with eighteen windows filled with geometric tracery.
The ancient door of the College--the tympana of whose arcading contain two laughing and crying heads--was transferred to the entrance of the Petit Lycee, at No.
The crooked state of some of the trefoils and quatrefoils of the tympana is probably due to the same cause.
The tympana are pierced, as before, with trefoils and quatrefoils, except in the case of the first bay on the eastern side, where they are plain.
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