Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s district one is surprised to find over thecrossing a flattish dome on regular pendentives, anotherAquitanian feature. The span of the nave is 28 ft. fromcentre to centre of the columns, that of the aisles 14; andthere are eight bays west of the crossing, which givesthe usual basilican proportion, the nave being twice aswide as the aisles, and four times as long as it is wide. The apse has a semi-dome and is surrounded by across-groined ambulatory with four projecting semi-circularchapels. These are buttressed outside by square pierswith Corinthianizing capitals like those of the nave pillars.All the windows are round-arched, some with colouredvoussoirs, and in the blank arcades occurs the horseshoetrefoil of the Auvergne and Le Puy. Throughout thisinteresting church Roman tradition runs strongly. It is apparent also in the fluted pilasters and otherfeatures of the cathedral of S. Maurice at Vienne, a townrich in Roman remains. The desecrated church of CH. xxii) FRANCE—BURGUNDY 115
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ara-riscptbamtUajulith a V . I najlf^jy-ticaisle basiLccQ-rL i • ,^/ I frohoftioi\ r-r?l t-r^ Fig. 99. 8—2 ii6 FRANCE—BURGUNDY (ch. xxii s. Pierre, S. PiERRE, now the museum, was once a Roman hall^^^ which was divided into nave and aisles by two wallspierced with arches on plain square piers. At the end,built against the Roman wall and pediment, is a fineRomanesque tower (Plate CXV), once preceded byfurther buildings now nearly obliterated. The tower isoblong, having three windows in front and two at thesides. Over those of the top stage but one are the horse-shoe trefoiled arches that have been noticed at Valenceand will be noticed at Le Puy and in the churches of theAuvergne. A plain tiled roof now forms the covering,and the termination originally intended is a matter forconjecture. Among other Burgundian towers there is agood one at Vezelay attached to the south transept, andof the two that originally flanked the west front, one stillretains its original upper part, though it

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