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44, the Chalice of S. Servais; 5,a reliquary bust of S. Servais
, fin cope and mitre of copper gilt, c. 1525, given to the Church by
Alexander Farnese in 1379; the donor’s arms are engraved on the
chack; 6, a portable altar of dark green marble with light
ergereen streaks ina wooden frame covered with thin plates of silver
ohpadorned with foliage, parcel gilt, Xll cent.; 7,a portable reli-
wyquary resting on 4 feet, XII cent.; 8, 3 other portable reli-
iiquaries; 9, an agate cup mounted in silver, XIII cent.; 10, an
darm reliquary of silver parcel gilt set with cabochons, 1357,
jand containing a bone of S. Thomas the Apostle, given to the
\Church by Godfrey de Bouillon; 11, a reliquary bust of
1S. John Bap. of silver gilt, XV cent.; 12, a fine tower mons-
-w trance of silver gilt with statuettes of the B. V., S. Servais and
| 2S. John; 13, a pax of gold with figures of the B. V., S. Michael
betand S. Gabriel, XVI cent.; 14, a reliquary of silver gilt con-
aining hair of the B. V. and S. John Ev.; 18,a pectoral cross
of gold with an ivory figure; 16, a chalice of silver gilt, 1649;
7147, 3 horns mounted with copper; 18, several carved ivory
zolechests and boxes, XIV-XVI cent. In the Cloisters are 2 paint-
o ings of the Carriage of the Cross and Descent from the Cross,
\wneearly Limburg school; and % ex votos of the Assumption and Coro-
rsomation of the B.V., XVI cent. In the chapels, porch and cloisters
sfeare-several mural monuments and incised slabs, and in the tower
fa good set of chimes.
{1 The Collegiate Church of Norrz Dame, founded by S. Monulph
; eon the site of a Temple of Diana, is a fine 3 aisled cruciform
ind building, 197 ft. long by 73 1/2 broad, with a hemispherical apse
io olto choir flanked by 2 square towers; one of these towers still re-
sc mains, but the spire which surmounted it was demolished c. 1790.
5) The nave and aisles date from the XI cent., the anct. wooden
iceiling of the former was removed in 1764, and the present yault-
jing constructed by G- Doyen. Beneath the intersection of the
seytyeross and the choir is an early crypt divided into 4 aisles by 3
swroyrows of small cylindrical columns, one of which faces the axe of
; off} the apse ; here are a Romanesque altar and an empty sarcophagus
-yailhewn out of a single block of stone. The Choir, XII cent., is
rou very fine; its apse is adorned interiorly by 2 series of arcading
gone above the other, placed against the wall and supnort-d by
haolaslender columns, isolated, except in centre of the apse where they
are replaced by groups of 4 columns : their capitals are finely
e4sculptured with repr. of the Earth under the form of a woman
o1@suckling monsters, scenes from the history of Cain and Abel,
(A Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the prophet Balaam; the most inter-
\29 esting one of all repr. Heimo, architect of the choir, offering a car-
pov ved capital to the B. V. At W. end of church and co-cqual with |
