Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ournus in Burgundy, where the difficulty of combininga large clerestory window with a barrel vault is met byplacing a barrel vault transversely over each bay at rightangles to the axis of the church, springing it from archesthrown across the church from side to side. The longsection of the vault therefore looks like the elevation ofa bridge with several arches. The result is not beautiful,and the plan does not seem to have been followedelsewhere on a large scale. At the cathedral of Mantes however,—Mantes lajolie,—a somewhat similar method is
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ournus in Burgundy, where the difficulty of combininga large clerestory window with a barrel vault is met byplacing a barrel vault transversely over each bay at rightangles to the axis of the church, springing it from archesthrown across the church from side to side. The longsection of the vault therefore looks like the elevation ofa bridge with several arches. The result is not beautiful,and the plan does not seem to have been followedelsewhere on a large scale. At the cathedral of Mantes however,—Mantes lajolie,—a somewhat similar method is adopted with betterresult on a small scale in vaulting the triforium. Thisbelongs to the class of large triforium galleries like thoseat Noyon, Senlis, Laon, and Paris. It is vaulted with aseries of barrel vaults placed like those at Tournus atright angles to the axis, and springing from lintels acrossthe gallery supported by a row of colonnettes (Fig. 65).As the gallery rounds the apse these cross vaults radiate CH. IX] PROVINCIAL STYLES 157. Fig. 65. i58 FRANCE [CH. IX Mantescathedral The Bur- gundian narthex Cham-pagne S. Urbainat Troyes conically from the narrow span of the choir bay to thegreater span on the aisle wall; this gives room for ahuge round window in each bay, and these form a veryunusual, and rather surprising feature in the exteriorview. The church seems to date from the end of the12th century, and the west front has some admirablecarving with a strong reminiscence of classic work1. Allthe arches are pointed, the vaulting is sexpartite, andthe piers are alternated with columns. The facade withits twin towers is a fine composition. The western narthex which was a feature in theRomanesque churches of Burgundy, as for instance atVezelay, Autun, and Pontigny, occurs also in the Gothicchurches of that province. One has been shown alreadyat S. Pere sous Vezelay (Plate XV p. 91 sup.) which isnow imperfect, if indeed it was ever completed. There isanother (Fig. 6
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