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On Valence Cathedral see Works, 9.180 and Verona Book pp.50-55
For the references to Torcello see Bit Book p.3.
Murray (1847a) p.445 says that ‘the Cathedral, a Romanesque building, small in size and very plain, is yet interesting to the architect for its age and constructive peculiarities’.
Woods (1828) I p.142 wrote:
the church at Valence is a very remarkable example, which must rather be classed with what is called Norman architecture...Yet...if it resembles the ancient buildings of our own country, in so many particulars as to be comprehended in the same terms, it yet differs from others so much as to present an appearance by no means exactly similar. The ornaments in particular are all Roman; the only attempt at novelty in the earlier buildings of the middle ages, in the south of France, consisting in placing some of them topsy-turvy.
The cathedral is unusual in the extent of the restoration work in the seventeenth century.
For photographs see here.
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