Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . the 13th century, or that the arcades wererebuilt in the 13th century, using again the masonry ofthe early arches and spandrils. As bearing on the lattertheory, I observed that while the piers have a very earlybase (Fig. 57 a) the clustered responds opposite them inthe aisle wall have good Gothic bases (Fig. 57 b) withangle toes. At Bayeux and the neighbourhood alone in France,so far as my observation goes, do we find that typicalearly English leaf which played so great a part in thefoliaged capitals of our native Gothic during the 13thcentur
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . the 13th century, or that the arcades wererebuilt in the 13th century, using again the masonry ofthe early arches and spandrils. As bearing on the lattertheory, I observed that while the piers have a very earlybase (Fig. 57 a) the clustered responds opposite them inthe aisle wall have good Gothic bases (Fig. 57 b) withangle toes. At Bayeux and the neighbourhood alone in France,so far as my observation goes, do we find that typicalearly English leaf which played so great a part in thefoliaged capitals of our native Gothic during the 13thcentury, from York and Lincoln in the north toWinchester and Chichester in the south, and from West-minster in the east to S. Davids in the west. In boththe examples here given (Figs. 56 and 58) it appears,and in one (Fig. 58) the whole capital is composed of it. There is no distinct triforium in the nave, but there CH. VIIl] NORMANDY H5 is a passage in the wall below the tall clerestory windows Bayeuxwhich have inner tracery, in the English manner. In. 1 jg*. Fig. 58. one bay a shallow gallery is bracketed out for a platformon which the organ would have been placed (Fig. 55). All vaults throughout the church are ornamentation is conventional, and sculpture insidethe church is confined to heads on brackets under thegallery, the capitals, and a few rude panels with figuresin the spandrils of the arcade. The west portals, whichare later, have sculptured tympana, and the usual figuresin tabernacles in the orders of the arch. The west frontand transept have traceried windows but no rose. Of the 12th century cathedral at Rouen nothing re-mains but the Tour S. Romain and the two side portalsof the west front, dedicated to S. Jean and S. main part of the building is subsequent to a destruc-tive fire in 1200, and the nave was probably finishedbefore 1240. The two side portals, that of La Calendeat the south transept, and that of Les Libraires on thenorth, were f
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