The choir of this church is enclosed by iron screens of remarkable
design and beautiful execution, figured in the plates.
They are evidently a work of the middle or latter part of the fifteenth
century. The lilies and leaves bent up out of the iron plates are
produced with wonderful skill. Some of the lateral chapels in the same
church have corresponding screen-work, and as Toulouse is a city
partaking much of the Spanish character in its buildings, streets, &c.,
I am inclined to think that it has also borrowed the design of this
screen-work from Spain; as Seville, Toledo, and other great churches,
have curious iron screens, reaching forty or fifty feet in height, and
of a very similar description of work. In the same plate with the
Toulouse iron-work, I have figured a screen from the cathedral of
Toledo, from which the great similarity of style may be readily
perceived.