I couldn't agree more with Lodewijk. Please have a look to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fa%C3%A7ade_et_parvis_de_l%27%C3%A9glise_Saint-Jacques_d%27Assyrie_(Hauteluce,_Savoie,_France).jpg, it is a gateway to a hundred pictures of the same church (with notes). This is the kind of awesome thing we would NOT have if we throw up a threshold.