. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. of the Cathedral at Avignon, the Franks employed not only bricks similar in form to those of the Romans, but used those which they ob- tained from the destruction of other edifices. The ground plan of the Romanesque edifices is evidently referable to the sources already alluded to, and we have in Fortunatus, a poet of the sixth century, and Gregory of Tours descriptions of several churches which serve to confirm this to the utmost extent. Such were the primitive basilicas ere
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. of the Cathedral at Avignon, the Franks employed not only bricks similar in form to those of the Romans, but used those which they ob- tained from the destruction of other edifices. The ground plan of the Romanesque edifices is evidently referable to the sources already alluded to, and we have in Fortunatus, a poet of the sixth century, and Gregory of Tours descriptions of several churches which serve to confirm this to the utmost extent. Such were the primitive basilicas erected in Paris, Tours, Clermont and other cities of Gaul. We find that they were spacious, of an oblong form, divided into several naves by rovNs of columns of marble, doubt- less obtained from the pagan spoils, and arranged parallelly to the lateral walls. At the hemicycle in the end, used as a sanctuary, was placed the altar, in the position called in Vitruvius the tribune, which in Christian edifices was always single, or at one end only, while in those of an earlier period, as in the basilica of the Foro Trajano at Rome, a tribune was occasionally placed at each end. Of the early specimens of the Christian basilica, if we may so terra it, one of the best preserved, is that of the Cathedral of Parenzo in Istria, built in the sixth century. Frequently however these buildings were of a cir- cular form, many of which are to be found in Italy, w hile in France there is St. Germain I'Auxerrois, called St. Germain the Round: several were consecrated by Constantine, both in the east and the west. Occasionalljf the circular form was combined with square naves, of the kind before described, something in the style of the church of the Holy Sepulchre. The church built by Perpetuus over the tomb of St. Mar- tin, near Tours, was a fine example of this last combination, and the accompanying engraving shows a restoration of the ground plan, from the description of tTregory, of U 2.
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