As for the great western entrance, it is close to English Gothic, if not by its very principle – of which France gives no equivalent, but of which England offers similar versions in Peterborough (early thirteenth century), in Lincoln (middle of the thirteenth century) – in any case by the shape of its arch, whose feet are constituted by two floors of délit small columns surrounding a central column, the first completely detached from the wall, the second supporting the broken arch: this entry strikingly reminds of the general appearance of the pillars blocking the transept crossing of Canterbury (around 1177), which presents the same rhythm and the same type of decoration."