. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Plate XXXIV.—Romanesque construction ; transverse section,showing flying buttress. From Tuckerman. 298 THE ROMANESQUE Christian period, being often surrounded by radiatingchapels, as in Notre Dame du Port, at Clermont (). But as the principal entrance was on the westernside, this facade became the most elaborate, as maybe seen in the Church of Notre Dame at Poitiers(Plate XXXV). The fagade was usually surmounted by a triangu-lar gable, and often flanked by sturdy towers. Blind arcades and bands ofinterlacing
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. Plate XXXIV.—Romanesque construction ; transverse section,showing flying buttress. From Tuckerman. 298 THE ROMANESQUE Christian period, being often surrounded by radiatingchapels, as in Notre Dame du Port, at Clermont (). But as the principal entrance was on the westernside, this facade became the most elaborate, as maybe seen in the Church of Notre Dame at Poitiers(Plate XXXV). The fagade was usually surmounted by a triangu-lar gable, and often flanked by sturdy towers. Blind arcades and bands ofinterlacing archescalled arcaturcsbas-reliefs of reli-gious subjects, andsymbolical carvingsincrusted the wallspaces, while deepround-headed win-dows and doorsbroke the gray complexity with misty purple inter-ruptions. A large circular window or ccil-dc-btvuf fre-quently held a prominent position, and this afterwarddeveloped into the beautiful rose windows so popularduring the Gothic period. In Italy and many parts of France the porch be-came a tribunal, where the abbot or bishop sat asjudge on certain questions of crime or dispute, espe-cially when plaintiff and defendant were unwilling tocarry the c
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