Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ijL^^^^ Fig. 77- arches. The apse is round inside and polygonal out, andhas chapels opening from it without an central one is polygonal outside and round insidelike the parent apse: the rest including two on the CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 41 transepts are semi-circular inside and out. The side Soiignacthrust of the domes is taken as at Cahors by deep sidearches with passages through the piers in the same way,on the top of an arcaded set-off (Fig. 78). The cathedral of Angouleme (Fig. ]]) was built by Angou-Bishop Gerard who occupied the see
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ijL^^^^ Fig. 77- arches. The apse is round inside and polygonal out, andhas chapels opening from it without an central one is polygonal outside and round insidelike the parent apse: the rest including two on the CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 41 transepts are semi-circular inside and out. The side Soiignacthrust of the domes is taken as at Cahors by deep sidearches with passages through the piers in the same way,on the top of an arcaded set-off (Fig. 78). The cathedral of Angouleme (Fig. ]]) was built by Angou-Bishop Gerard who occupied the see from 1101-1136. y^^xI^This church and that of the abbey of Fontevrault, which ^^^^. Fig. 78. resembles it so closely in design and dimension thatDe Verneilh^ conceives it must have been deliberatelycopied from it, are aisleless cruciform churches coveredwith a series of domes on pendentives resting on veryslightly pointed arches. At Fontevrault the pendentives remain but the domeshave been destroyed. ^ De Verneilh, p. 276. 42 FRANCE—AOUITAINE [ch. xix Angou- The transepts and choir at Angouleme are covered with barrel vaults. At each end of the transept wasoriginally a lofty tower; that on the south has beendestroyed and that on the north re-built. It opens by alofty arch to the transept, and the interior effect thusproduced is superb. The central dome over the crossingis raised on a drum as a lantern. There is a high wall-arcade as at Solignac and Cahors, with two round-headedwindows in each bay, and chapels project directly fromthe great apse without an ambulatory. There are many other examples of true cupolas on Perigueux pendeutives in Aquitaine. In Perigueux i
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