. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . rch is Romanesque (probably late twelfth-century, continued in the thirteenth), and now muchrestored and decorated. It has a central apse, withribbed vaults and three semicircular steps projectinginto the crossing, and a nave of three bays beyond the arches are pointed, but unmoulded : the vaultingis quadripartite, with tolerably simple profiles to theribs ; the choir vaults are later, and the ribs springfrom caps set angle-wise, instead of the usual side apses are earlier, both in the
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . rch is Romanesque (probably late twelfth-century, continued in the thirteenth), and now muchrestored and decorated. It has a central apse, withribbed vaults and three semicircular steps projectinginto the crossing, and a nave of three bays beyond the arches are pointed, but unmoulded : the vaultingis quadripartite, with tolerably simple profiles to theribs ; the choir vaults are later, and the ribs springfrom caps set angle-wise, instead of the usual side apses are earlier, both in the character of thecarving and the arrangement of the windows andsemi-dome. Here, and in the great arch of the choir,balls are used as claws. The shafts of the choir-archhave a second small column above the first cap, andthe corbels of the vaulting group with its cap to forman important feature. The caps of the arches acrossthe transepts are on the level of the first ; those of thenave vaulting shafts on the higher level. The vaultingis later in date, I should think, as the piers of the nave. 2 < H< UOQ S M WXH 72 TO SAUVETERRE DE B£ARN arcade are simple in plan, and the carving of the capsearly. The vaulting of the aisles is of the later period :the crossing piers are raised on irregular octagonalbases with chamfered angles, and the plan suggestslate twelfth-century ; the ball claws occur here too,yet the crossing and the side apses look the oldest part,and one of the caps has South Sea Islands monstersat the angles. The modern colouring assists thislikeness. The nave piers are on round bases. Thenave and aisles are of three bays, lighted by oculi inthe clerestory (some of them filled with later tracery)and narrow, round-headed windows in the aisles. Thevaults of the crossing have horizontal ribs at the sum-mits of the arches, continued in one bay of the vaults are all the same height from west to east,and oculi are inserted above the side arches of thecrossing.
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