Fergusson, James: The illustrated handbook of architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture preveiling in all ages and all countries (London, 1859)

730 BELGIAN ABCHITECTUEE. Book IV.

especially for that purpose in Belginm, tlie foundation-stone liaving
been laid in 1377. It is a small building, being only 88 ft. in front
by 65 in depth, of a singularly pure and elegant design. Its small

597. Cloth-hall at Ypres.

size causes it to suffer considerably from its immediate proximity to the
cloth-hall and other trade-halls of the city. Tliese, grouped with tlie
belfry in their centre, occupy one end of the great I'lace, and, though