. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . PLAN OF S. SAUVEUR 39 carrying the cornice. Some of them are outside thecornice, and support a slope like the ordinary termina-. PLAN OF S. SAUVEUR, ST. MACAIRE. tionof a buttress. Unfortunately they are too high upto draw. M. Leon Drouyn says that the same masonsmarks appear in the bases of the whole extent of the 40 ST. MACAIRE walls, proving that the plan is entirely of the samedate, though the eastern bay of the nave marks theend of the untouched Romanesque work. The secondand third bays were eit
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . PLAN OF S. SAUVEUR 39 carrying the cornice. Some of them are outside thecornice, and support a slope like the ordinary termina-. PLAN OF S. SAUVEUR, ST. MACAIRE. tionof a buttress. Unfortunately they are too high upto draw. M. Leon Drouyn says that the same masonsmarks appear in the bases of the whole extent of the 40 ST. MACAIRE walls, proving that the plan is entirely of the samedate, though the eastern bay of the nave marks theend of the untouched Romanesque work. The secondand third bays were either finished or restored early inthe thirteenth century, as the pointed windows withRomanesque mouldings show. The westernmost is ofthe second half of the thirteenth. With these periodsthe character of the vaulting ribs agrees. The but-tresses to the south terminate in one colonnette, thoseto the north in three. The windows are simple lancetsgrouped in twos, with engaged columns and capsalmost Romanesque in character. On the north of thewestern bay is a walled-up Romanesque door, whichwas the entrance for the inhabitants of the town. Onthe south a pointed door led to the priory sacristy, andanother, higher up, is sa
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