. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. fied by acombination of motives derived from Tournus and roof was formed by a series of Lombard cloistered domeson squinches, supported by transverse arches. The idea wasingenious and original, but it never attained great popularity(111. 151). Still another variant of the Byzantine designs of the Charentewas tried at St. Ours of Loches. Here the dome was replacedby a hollow stone pyramid, forming a sort of spire externally(111. 152). The groin vault, though known in France and Normand
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. fied by acombination of motives derived from Tournus and roof was formed by a series of Lombard cloistered domeson squinches, supported by transverse arches. The idea wasingenious and original, but it never attained great popularity(111. 151). Still another variant of the Byzantine designs of the Charentewas tried at St. Ours of Loches. Here the dome was replacedby a hollow stone pyramid, forming a sort of spire externally(111. 152). The groin vault, though known in France and Normandy,as well as in certain churches of Burgundy, like Vezelay orAvallon, found its most consistent application without the Frenchborder, in the school of the Rhine valley, whose masterpieces arethe great cathedral churches at Mainz, Speyer, and ^^ structure of these monuments was essentially Lombard(111. 153), except that for the rib vault the groin vault was sub-stituted. The groin vault lacks both the structural utility andpliability of the rib vault, and the absence of strongly marked.
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