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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but this fashion never obtained in westernEurope, where the gabled roof is universal. The drawback to this mode of construction is thatthe half-barrel vaults over the triforium, in order to abutthe great central one over the nave, had to pitch againstit at such a height as to make a clerestory impossible ;and the only light the church could receive was by thelower windows in the aisles, those at the east and westends, and what little stole in through small windows atthe back of the triforium. Another striking feature of these Auvergnat churchesis the polychrome masonry with which they are decorated(Plate CXVI). Situated as they are among the extinctvolcanoes of the Puy de Dome, the black basaltic rockof the district is used as a freestone in their construction ;and advantage is taken of this to mix it with yellowishwhite stone in mosaic patterns on the exterior walls.Not only are the arches made with black and whitevoussoirs alternately, but the gables, and the spandrils of Plate CXVI
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