Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 228
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look lively & are writing all sorts of things on the wall some of them are very funny, in common with all other French villages, Dombart has a very fine church & it has the first chimes that I have heard in France, they are very nice.
The interior of the church is in some respects the best I have seen in France it is something like Gothic architecture the ceiling is all carried up in big arches & they look to be marble, it is all done in a dark blue & white shade, & it gives a pretty & cool eff appearance to the church They have a fine model of Joan of Arc in here she is dressed in her coat of mail & looks very fine, they go in of very fine stained glass windows, & stone & wood carvings all coloured to give a good appearance to it, all theses churches are no doubt beautiful, but they