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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transept, andof the two that originally flanked the west front, one stillretains its original upper part, though it has been a gooddeal spoiled by modern work. At Saulieu is a finethough imperfect tower, rather later, and with pointedarches.Abbey of At LvoNS, the Centre of the old Burgundian kingdom, Lyons though the church of Bishop Patiens, which SidoniusApollinaris celebrated in an ode, cannot now be traced,there remains in the church of the abbey of Ainay(Fig. loo) a building of considerable interest, datingfrom the loth and iith centuries but much altered insubsequent ages. The plan is basilican and cruciform,with barrel-vaulted nave and aisles under the same roof.The columns are cylindrical with capitals of a rudeCorinthianizing character. At the east end are threeapses corresponding to the nave and aisles and coveredwith semi-domes. There are two towers, one over the crossing, low andsquare, carried on four great granite columns which are Plate CXV .^N r. r 1^^^ ^%>>^-, t
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fnmtun: S. PIERRE—VIENNE CH. xxii) FRANCE—BURGUNDY 117 antiques cut short, and covering an octagonal domeresting on squlnches with round-arched arcading likethose at Le Puy. The top stage has round archedopenings with coupled colonnettes, and finishes with acorbel table and cornice. The other tower Is at the west end and has a lowpyramidal spire, and at the angles, by way of pinnacles,four curious antefixae or horns, consisting of thefourth part of a pyramid or cone, like those at the anglesof a Roman sarcophagus, which probably suggested their Abbey of Ainay, Lyons

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