The interior, which has a crypt in each transept, in the main preserves its original character.
Beyond paving the streets the French have made no alteration in the suks, which retain their original character unimpaired.
The male communities did not survive the 14th century, even in the Netherlands, where they had maintained their original character least impaired.
It is not possible to say what was the original character of many of the disrupted materials, for they have been rearranged and re-crystallized into granulitic, flaggy gneisses and schists (Moine schists).
It is uncertain when the office was created and what was its original character.