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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resting, and the great arches aredecorated with the embattled fret that occurs in thechoir. There are other Romanesque churches of interestin Caen and the neighbourhood. S. Nicholas is themost remarkable of them, with its curious lofty semi-coneover the apse, rising like the half-section of a steepleabove the roof. The church of S. Michel de Vaucelles in the suburbshas a beautiful tower and spire in the later style of Normanarchitecture, when the workmen had gained greater skilland freedom in dealing with their material and the stylehad begun to abate its severity (Plate CXXVIII).The belfry stage with its richly shafted and mouldedwindows would seem to be coeval with the upper storeysof the towers of S. Etienne, while that below has theplain square sunk panelling between narrow strips ofpilasters which mark the Conquerors work on the samebuilding. The village of S. Contest, a few miles off, has atower and spire of the same date and style, with a similar CH. xxiv) FRANCE—NORMANDY 157
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ABSAVE -AUX -DAnES •CAEN.BAY OF CHOIR. Fig. 112. 158 FRANCE—NORMANDY (ch. xxiv circular stair-turret at one corner surmounted by a spireletof its own growing out of the larger one.The The Norman style however may be studied as well style in in England as in Normandy, if not better, for no sooner^^^ had the invaders settled themselves firmly on the con-quered soil than they set to work to cover the countrywith vast buildings on a scale not only far beyond whatthey found there but even greater than those they hadleft behind them in their own country. It is thereforeunnecessary to dwell longer on the Romanesque ofNormandy itself, which does not differ appreciably fromthat which the Normans transported to the other side ofDistinctive the Channel. In either country it has a distinct characterof Norman of Jts own, differing not much more widely from theSaxon work in England than from the other schools ofRomanesque architecture in France. It has none ofthe wealth of sculpture which plays

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