Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 92. and the apses are covered with semi-domes. The doorsoften have sculpture, sometimes of marble, executed ina less grotesque fashion than contemporary work in thenorth. Occasionally as at S. Just, and S. Bertrand thefigures are really excellent,s. Aventin The church of the mountain village of S. Aventin(Fig. 92) is a considerable building, with a central and Plate CXI. South Portal—MOISSAC CH. xxi] FRANCE—TOULOUSE Sy also a western tower, both pierced by windows withmid-wall shafts. It is a three-aisled basilican church, thenave barrel-vaulted wit
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 92. and the apses are covered with semi-domes. The doorsoften have sculpture, sometimes of marble, executed ina less grotesque fashion than contemporary work in thenorth. Occasionally as at S. Just, and S. Bertrand thefigures are really excellent,s. Aventin The church of the mountain village of S. Aventin(Fig. 92) is a considerable building, with a central and Plate CXI. South Portal—MOISSAC CH. xxi] FRANCE—TOULOUSE Sy also a western tower, both pierced by windows withmid-wall shafts. It is a three-aisled basilican church, thenave barrel-vaulted with transverse ribs, and the aislescross-groined. The proportion is narrow and lofty, andthe building ends eastward with three apses. The abbey of Moissac, north of Toulouse, is a single- Abbey of ^_aisled_apsidal church, of which the nave was re-built in the15th century. At the west end howeveritJias the oiigiD^^Romanesque tower, to which was added on the south sidea magnificent outer portal, and at the same time thetower was turned into a fortress by the addition of aparapet walk round it with crenellation over the entrance. churches are not uncommon in this district,which suffered severely during the crusades against theAlbigenses. Xl]^---^Xt§i_is_J3}_agi^ificently arch like that at S. Trophime is very slightly pointedand its three orders are divided by a slender reed-likef
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