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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columns, apartments for the ladies, and spinningrooms for the maids, saloons and verandahs. Nor was church architecture behindhand. Thechurch built by Bishop Namatius in the 5th century atClermont-Ferrand is described by Gregory of Toursas measuring 150 ft. by 60, and 50 ft. in height to theroof It had side aisles, was cruciform and apsidal,with 42 windows, 70 columns and 8 doors. The wallswere adorned with mosaic of various kinds of marblelThe odour of sanctity was patent to the senses, for thechurch exhaled the sweetest scent as of aromas. Ona still larger scale was the famous basilica of S. Martin builtby Bishop Perpetuus in 472 at Tours, which Gregory thehistorian and bishop himself re-built after a conflagration. 1 Plin. Ep. V. 6. Sid. Apoll. Ep. n. ii. 2 Parietes ad altarium opere sarsurio ex multo marmorum genere exomatoshabet. Greg. Turon. x. i6. He gives a long list of churches built at thistime by Bishop Perpetuus and others, sarsurius = musivum opus. Ducange. ^ ■-v,o^ c;
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Op C/2 CH. xix) FRANCE 31 It was 10 ft. longer than that at Clermont, though not Church ofquite so lofty: it had 52 windows, 120 columns, and at Tours8 doors, and seems to have been preceded by an atriumor cloistered forecourt. Sidonius celebrates this churchin an ode of which he sends a copy to Lucontius, endingwith a pun on the name of the founder, Perpetuo durent culmina Perpetui^ He writes to his friend Hesperius^ an account of the Primitivededication of a church at Lyons built by Papa Pattens, at Lyonspope or bishop of that city, who like himself was a greatGallo-Roman noble, and had used his wealth liberally tohelp the poor in time of distress. On the walls of thechurch Sidonius at the bishops request had inscribedwhat he calls a tumultuariuni carmen, of which hesends Hesperius a copy. The church was lofty, andwas orientated : the gilded ceiling vied with the sunshine;and though the description is very obscure we can makeout that it was lined and paved with various colouredmarbl

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