Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . he nave, and so has that at S. all these churches except Montierneuf, which has ahigh choir of later work, one roof covers both nave andaisles in an unbroken slope, thus forbidding a consequence the upper parts of the nave are verydark. There is no better example of this kind of buildingthan the fine church of S. Savin, which is remarkable forits lofty proportions and its painted decoration (Plate CI I).This western side of France still possesses one of thefew buildings that go back to Merovingian times, whichmay help us a little
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . he nave, and so has that at S. all these churches except Montierneuf, which has ahigh choir of later work, one roof covers both nave andaisles in an unbroken slope, thus forbidding a consequence the upper parts of the nave are verydark. There is no better example of this kind of buildingthan the fine church of S. Savin, which is remarkable forits lofty proportions and its painted decoration (Plate CI I).This western side of France still possesses one of thefew buildings that go back to Merovingian times, whichmay help us a little to understand the architecture sohighly lauded by Sidonius Apollinaris in the 5th, andGregory of Tours in the 6th century. The TempleDE S. Jean, as it is called, at Poitiers, is an ancientbaptistery, now sunk deep below the level of the modernstreets, and bearing manifest signs of antiquity. It issupposed to have been built by Bishop Ansoaldus (682-686) but has evidently undergone repair and alterations. Plate CII f»,t\ J^-~(,y:j W^J^.
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