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Chap. I.
PROVENCE.
607
of th-e clinrdies of Provence, bnt wliich. approaches, both in style ancl
locality, very closely to the Burgundian churches.
Its plan is extremely simple, having
trending round the apse, as most of the
Northem churches have. It consists of
3 aisles, the central one 35 ft, wide be-
tween the piers, the others 14 ft. The
buttresses are internal, as was usual in the
South, forming chapels, and making up the
whole interior width to 113 ft. by a lengtli
internally of 313, so that it covers some-
wliere about 35,000 ft. This is only half
the dimensions of some of the great North-
ern cathedrals, but the absence of tran-
septs, and its generally judicious propor-
tions, make this church look niuck larger
than it really is.
The west front and the 3 western bays
are of the 16th century; the next 7 are of
an early style of pointed arcliitecture, with
semi-Roman pilasters, which will be de-
scribed in speaking of Burgundian archi-
tecture, and which belong probably to the
11th or beginning of the 12th century.
The apse is ascribed to the year 952, but
there are no drawings on whicli depend-
ence can be placed suf&cient to determine
the date.
Besides this, there is another churck, St. Andre le Bas at Vienne,
belonging to the 11th century, whose tower is one of the most pleasing
instances of this kind of composition in the province, and though
evidently a lineal descendant of the Roman and Italian campaniles,
displays an amount of design seldom met with beyond the Alps.
ClRCULAR CHURCHES.
The round shape seems never to have been a favourite for sacred
buildings in Provence, and consecjuently was never workecl into the
apses of the ckurckes, nor became an important adjunct to them. One
of the few examples found is a small baptistery attachecl to the cathe-
clral at Aix, either very ancient or built with ancient materials, ancl
now painfully modernised. At Riez there is a circular detached
baptistery, usually, like the churckes at Vaison, callecl a pagan temple,
but eviclently of Christian origin, though the pillars in the interior
seem undoubtedly to have been borrowed from some more ancient ancl
classical edifice. But tlie fkiest of its class is the church at Rieux,
probably of the 11th century. Internally the vault is supported by
4 piers and 3 pillars, producing an irregularity far from pleasing, and
without any apparent motive.
no transept and no aisle
479. Cathedral, VienDe. From Wie-
beking. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
PROVENCE.
607
of th-e clinrdies of Provence, bnt wliich. approaches, both in style ancl
locality, very closely to the Burgundian churches.
Its plan is extremely simple, having
trending round the apse, as most of the
Northem churches have. It consists of
3 aisles, the central one 35 ft, wide be-
tween the piers, the others 14 ft. The
buttresses are internal, as was usual in the
South, forming chapels, and making up the
whole interior width to 113 ft. by a lengtli
internally of 313, so that it covers some-
wliere about 35,000 ft. This is only half
the dimensions of some of the great North-
ern cathedrals, but the absence of tran-
septs, and its generally judicious propor-
tions, make this church look niuck larger
than it really is.
The west front and the 3 western bays
are of the 16th century; the next 7 are of
an early style of pointed arcliitecture, with
semi-Roman pilasters, which will be de-
scribed in speaking of Burgundian archi-
tecture, and which belong probably to the
11th or beginning of the 12th century.
The apse is ascribed to the year 952, but
there are no drawings on whicli depend-
ence can be placed suf&cient to determine
the date.
Besides this, there is another churck, St. Andre le Bas at Vienne,
belonging to the 11th century, whose tower is one of the most pleasing
instances of this kind of composition in the province, and though
evidently a lineal descendant of the Roman and Italian campaniles,
displays an amount of design seldom met with beyond the Alps.
ClRCULAR CHURCHES.
The round shape seems never to have been a favourite for sacred
buildings in Provence, and consecjuently was never workecl into the
apses of the ckurckes, nor became an important adjunct to them. One
of the few examples found is a small baptistery attachecl to the cathe-
clral at Aix, either very ancient or built with ancient materials, ancl
now painfully modernised. At Riez there is a circular detached
baptistery, usually, like the churckes at Vaison, callecl a pagan temple,
but eviclently of Christian origin, though the pillars in the interior
seem undoubtedly to have been borrowed from some more ancient ancl
classical edifice. But tlie fkiest of its class is the church at Rieux,
probably of the 11th century. Internally the vault is supported by
4 piers and 3 pillars, producing an irregularity far from pleasing, and
without any apparent motive.
no transept and no aisle
479. Cathedral, VienDe. From Wie-
beking. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.