Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . wall below the windows ; it is in high relief, and undercut,and is rather heavy, and has the look of being stuck on(Fig. 61). The foliage is half-way between the older con-ventions and the natural work of the 14th century. Onepart of this band of ornament is occupied by a series re-presenting the Massacre of the Innocents, which belongedto the older church of which the nave is a survival. In the wall arcading of the ambulatory it is interesting inter-to find the interlacing mouldings which play so large a mouldingspart at Wells (Fig. 62 and P
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . wall below the windows ; it is in high relief, and undercut,and is rather heavy, and has the look of being stuck on(Fig. 61). The foliage is half-way between the older con-ventions and the natural work of the 14th century. Onepart of this band of ornament is occupied by a series re-presenting the Massacre of the Innocents, which belongedto the older church of which the nave is a survival. In the wall arcading of the ambulatory it is interesting inter-to find the interlacing mouldings which play so large a mouldingspart at Wells (Fig. 62 and Plate LXI infra). The abaci of the apse columns are round, and so arethose of the spire lights. *52 NORMANDY [CH. VIII Coutancescathedral The nave The choir. The magnificent cathedral of Coutances (Plate XLI)shows most of the peculiaritiesof Norman Gothic. Nothingremains to be seen of the olderchurch, built between 1030 and1083, though the core of thefour huge piers of the centraltower and that of many of thewalls is probably of that con-struction, encased in later whole church is now in thepointed style of the 13th century,except the long Lady chapel andthe side chapels of the nave,which are additions of the 14th. The nave, which dates from1208, has clustered piers withsquare abaci, deeply mouldedarches and triple vaulting shafts rising from the triforium, which is now blocked, has shallow mould-ings, a rather coarse parapet of large quatrefoils, and acircle in the shield of the head sunk with geometricalpatterns. The clerestory consists of a plain single lightwith a wide soffit and jamb on the inside, cut squarethrough the wall, allowing a wall-passage in front of thewindow. The nave has a single aisle on each side, wi
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