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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tuated on a lofty rock in scenery thatis almost Alpine, and is reached by a drive of about twoand a half hours from Issoire, through a fine country.The construction here is exactly like those already de-scribed, with barrel vaults to nave, quadrant vault overtriforium, cross-vaulted aisles, west gallery opening byarches over a porch into nave and aisle, chevet withambulatory, semi-circular chapels, and exterior mosaic,and a central tower with dome. A single roof as usualcovers both nave and aisles in an unbroken slope. Herehowever instead of compound piers the nave has cylindricalcolumns, with simple Corinthianizing capitals, and thestoried capitals are confined to the east end. There aretwo towers at the west end which give this church anindividual character among its fellows. On the wholethe interior of S. Nectaire struck me as the most pleasingof all these Auvergnat churches (Plate CXIX). Brioude (Plate CXVI, sup. p. 130) is the latest of the Bnoude 136 FRANCE—AUVERGNE (ch. xxiii
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Fig. 106. CH. xxiii) FRANCE—AUVERGNE 137 group in date, and has not only suffered a good deal of Briouderenovation in modern times like the rest, but was also agood deal pulled about in the 14th century, when the navewas ceiled with rib and panel vaulting. Two bays ofthe nave next the crossing remain in their original state :one has three blank arches where the triforium shouldbe, and a circle above ; and if this is original it wouldhave prevented a barrel vault. The other bays have aclerestory into which Gothic traceries are inserted. Thecentral tower over the crossing rests on four pointedarches, and is open as a lantern to the floor. Thetransepts do not outrun the aisles, and are vaulted intwo heights, forming a gallery, with a barrel vault aboveand a cross-groined vault below constructed in ashlar.There is a western tower as at Issoire, and a porch andgallery at the west end. On the south side is a fineporch of simple design. The capitals are mostly Corinthianizing, but someare

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