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The carved tracery decoration in Gothic style (including quatrefoils, fleurs-de-lis and rosettes) by Huguet in the ambulatory of the cloister of King João I now forms a combination with the
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of the church to its present height of 32.4 m, altering considerably the proportions of the church and giving it its present towering aspect, a first in
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retrochoir) and only accessible from the outside. The octagonal rotunda has seven radiating hexagonal chapels. There are several earlier
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