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FRENCII ARCHJTECTURE.
Part II.
resemblance to the earliest Christian churches of Rome on the one
hand, and to the true Gothic on the other, that we cannot doubt their
being the channel through which the latter was derived from the
former. They are, moreover, the oldest churches in Northern France,
which is sufïicient to confirm this view.
The character of this style wili be understood from the plan and
internal and external view of one of its typical examples, the Basse
Œuvre at Beauvais (Woodcuts Nos. 607 and 608). It will be seen
that this building consists of a nave and side-aisles, separated from
each other by a range of plain arches resting on piers without either
bases or capitals ; on one side the angles are cut off, so as to give a
608. External and Internal View of Basse Œuvre- (From Woillez.)
slightly ornamental character ; on the other they are left square. The
central aisle is twice the width, and more than twice the height, of the
lateral aisles, and has a well-dehned clerestory ; t-he roof, both of the
central and side aisles, is a flat ceiling of wood. The eastern end has
been destroyecl, but, judging from other examples, it probably consisted
of three apses, a large one in the centre and a smaller one at the end
of each aisle.
The similarity of the form of this church to the Roman basilicas
will be eviclent on referring to the representations of those buiklings,
more especially to that of San Vincenzo alle Tre Fontane (Woodcut
No. 408), though the details have nothing in common except in the use
of flat tiles between the cornices of the arches, which is singularly
characteristic of Roman masonry. The points in which this example
is most evidently the source of some of the important peculiarities of
FRENCII ARCHJTECTURE.
Part II.
resemblance to the earliest Christian churches of Rome on the one
hand, and to the true Gothic on the other, that we cannot doubt their
being the channel through which the latter was derived from the
former. They are, moreover, the oldest churches in Northern France,
which is sufïicient to confirm this view.
The character of this style wili be understood from the plan and
internal and external view of one of its typical examples, the Basse
Œuvre at Beauvais (Woodcuts Nos. 607 and 608). It will be seen
that this building consists of a nave and side-aisles, separated from
each other by a range of plain arches resting on piers without either
bases or capitals ; on one side the angles are cut off, so as to give a
608. External and Internal View of Basse Œuvre- (From Woillez.)
slightly ornamental character ; on the other they are left square. The
central aisle is twice the width, and more than twice the height, of the
lateral aisles, and has a well-dehned clerestory ; t-he roof, both of the
central and side aisles, is a flat ceiling of wood. The eastern end has
been destroyecl, but, judging from other examples, it probably consisted
of three apses, a large one in the centre and a smaller one at the end
of each aisle.
The similarity of the form of this church to the Roman basilicas
will be eviclent on referring to the representations of those buiklings,
more especially to that of San Vincenzo alle Tre Fontane (Woodcut
No. 408), though the details have nothing in common except in the use
of flat tiles between the cornices of the arches, which is singularly
characteristic of Roman masonry. The points in which this example
is most evidently the source of some of the important peculiarities of