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Title: Church and conventual arrangement. With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index. And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church architecture Convents
Publisher: London, Atchley and Co
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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he choir aisles, and west and east aisles to the transept;and Altenburg2 (c. T255) has a chevet with seven polygonalchapels; the only English instance of such a terminationthat is known is at Beaulieu, where the Bev. F. W. Bakerhas discovered that the apsidal choir had double aisles, theouter being, probably, divided into chapels; and that thenorth transept had aisles on the east and west sides.Alcobaca, in Portugal—1148-1222—has a three-aisled nave,and a chevet with nine chapels. Notre Dame Buremonde,begun 1218, is of the Bhenish type, having pentagonalapses to the choir and apses, a cupola, with two. flankingcentral towers; and a large west transept and narthex.3 Inthe twelfth century the order distinguished themselves fromthe Benedictines by the choice of a secluded spot and the 1 Jour. Arch. Ass. vi. 309, 312; Ecclesiologist, cxxxiii. ; Viollet le Due,207, 250, 264, 269 ; Fosbrooke, Brit. Mon. 112; Proc. E. I. B. A. 1850-1, p. 6.2 Webb, Cont. Eccles. p. 50. 3 Schayes, iii. 50.
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Cistercian.—Clvgniacs. 73 simplicity of their ground-plan, which, in its earliest type, wasmarked by a short square-ended choir, as at Holy Cross, Hore,Boyle, &c, except at Bievalle and Fountains; often aisleless,as at Pluscardine, St. Mary Sweet Heart, Kirkstall, Roche,Furness, &c.; and by having chapels (usually four) on a linewith the choir, and opening like an eastern aisle into the tran-sept, as at Sylvacane c. 1147.1 Fontenay (c. 1119), Sernay(c. 1128), Clairvaux, and Novitac, built by St. Bernard andSt. Vincent at Borne. Citeaux was square-ended, but hadapses to the transeptal chapels. Vaux de Cernay (c. 1128)was square-ended, with four apsidal transept chapels. Fonte-nay had a square apse, with square-ended transeptal chapels.This arrangement, which was adopted in the fifteenth and six-teenth centuries at Florence and Borne, appears in England atKirkstall, Roche, Furness, Netley, Buildwas, Tintern, andFountains, &c.; and in Ireland, at Dunbrody and Boyle. NoLady-

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