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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alconnexion with these different powers at different timesexplains to some extent the architecture of the province,which at Le Puy seems influenced by the domes ofAquitaine, and in the decorations of Notre Dame du Portat Clermont, and the group of buildings belonging to thesame class, appears to be affected by the Byzantinetraditions of the south. The architecture of the province however has a Thestrong individuality, and the churches of the Auvergne stylemay be said to have a style of their own. The bestknown examples are those of Notre Dame du Port atClermont-Ferrand, Issoire, S. Nectaire, and Brioude, allof which except the last named, which is rather later, datefrom the beginning of the 12th century. The plan is cruciform, but the management of thecrossing is singular, and very beautifully contrived. Theground plan (Figs. 104, 105) does not suggest the pecu-liarity of the upper part, for the deep transepts instead of ^ Hallam, Middle Ages, chap. i. 128 FRANCE—AUVERGNE (ch. xxiii
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CH. xxiii) FRANCE—AUVERGNE 129 rising: in the usual way for their whole extent to the same The . . , ... Auvergiiat height as the nave and choir, have only their inner part, tianseptcorresponding to the nave aisles, carried up, while somuch of the transept as projects beyond the aisles iskept lower (Fig. 103 b). All four arms of the buildingare covered with barrel vaults which are stopped at thecentral crossing by a tower and cupola. This is notconstructed as a true dome, but an octagon is formed bysquinch arches, and carried up as an octagonal tower toa considerable height, where it finishes with a pyramidalroof. This break in the height of the transept is an admirablecontrivance for setting off the central tower and spire tothe best advantage. It escapes the fault of appearing tobury the tower between converging roofs, and also thatof seeming to carry the tower on the roof itself. Insteadof this the short high transept, not much wider than thetower, seems to afford it a good broad

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