An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ndedin 1133 d, but the churchwas not completed before1175—1180, which bringsit to the same period asSens, Lisieux, and Can-terbury. The churches of Parishave been mentioned atp. 86. The church of thePriory of St. Martin desChamps (156), now theConservatoire des Arts etMetiers, is a very remark-able one: the apse is pro-bably of the eleventh cen-tury, and very curious, withalterations and additions ofthe twelfth, when the choirwas rebuilt; and the nave isof the windows very characteristic of the early Frenchstyle. In Soissons
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . ndedin 1133 d, but the churchwas not completed before1175—1180, which bringsit to the same period asSens, Lisieux, and Can-terbury. The churches of Parishave been mentioned atp. 86. The church of thePriory of St. Martin desChamps (156), now theConservatoire des Arts etMetiers, is a very remark-able one: the apse is pro-bably of the eleventh cen-tury, and very curious, withalterations and additions ofthe twelfth, when the choirwas rebuilt; and the nave isof the windows very characteristic of the early Frenchstyle. In Soissons and its neighbourhood, which forms the districtcalled the Soissonnais, nearly all the churches are of the character oftransition from the Romanesque to the Gothic, and some of the mostlearned of the French antiquaries consider that this district was thebirthplace of Gothic architecture. It is to be regretted that theyhave not more carefully investigated the history of these only one of which the date seems to be ascertained with con-. * Gallia Christiana, vol. iv. p. 217. THE TRANSITION IN FRANCE. ig$ fidence is the Cathedral of Soissons, which has been already men-tioned as finished in 1212, thirty years after Canterbury; and yet itis very little more advanced in style, except in the particular featureof plate-tracery. On the other hand, the south transept of Soissons,which is lower than the rest of the building, and evidently belongs
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