Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . V^:. ^.^. fil,.! 1 Yrr^!~ -.^V /J- 3 <^. < - C xf ^. S. SAVIN CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 53 It is a rectangular building (Fig. 82), gabled north andsouth, with apses projected from the east and the twosides. On the west it has a narthex of later date. Theprincipal apse, towards the east, is polygonal inside butsquare without, as the side apses may once have been,though they are now rounded. The arches opening intothe apses spring from columns with Corinthianising ?w ^ ^. G/^iLO-ROMAN wUS [aivsuptnirdctuxeMEROVI7S6IAN. ZfJ\^^p6i
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . V^:. ^.^. fil,.! 1 Yrr^!~ -.^V /J- 3 <^. < - C xf ^. S. SAVIN CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 53 It is a rectangular building (Fig. 82), gabled north andsouth, with apses projected from the east and the twosides. On the west it has a narthex of later date. Theprincipal apse, towards the east, is polygonal inside butsquare without, as the side apses may once have been,though they are now rounded. The arches opening intothe apses spring from columns with Corinthianising ?w ^ ^. G/^iLO-ROMAN wUS [aivsuptnirdctuxeMEROVI7S6IAN. ZfJ\^^ 1018 Fig. 82 capitals and the walls both in the ground and upperstorey are decorated with blank arcading springing fromsimilar colonnettes. Light is given by a clerestory ofwindows, once round-headed openings, but now formedinto circles. The roof is of wood. Sunk in the centreof the floor is the deep baptismal piscina. The plan is so unusual for a baptistery, which shouldbe round as at S. Leonard near Limoges (Fig. 86), or 54 FRANCE—AQUITAINE [CH. XIX S. Jean,Poitiers Materialsusedsecond-hand octagonal as at Ravenna and elsewhere in Italy, that someexplanation seems necessary. It is not improbable, I think,that the rectangular body of the building formed one of aseries of halls belonging to some late Roman building,for excavation has disclosed the foundations of a ratherextensive range of chambers attached to it, which seemto have no reference to the function of a apses are not o
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