Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ristic. The projecting label or hood-mould whichis usual over the interior arches in English Gothic is notuncommon in Normandy, but so far as I know it doesnot occur elsewhere in France. At Rouen, Seez, Bayeux,Coutances, Dol, and Le Mans we find piers and columnswith a round abacus instead of the square or polygonalform usual in French Gothic, and this too is an Englishfeature. I n many of the facades, as for instance at Lisieux,Seez and Coutances the rose window so typical of Frenchdesign is wanting : in the front of the cathedral of Rouenit
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ristic. The projecting label or hood-mould whichis usual over the interior arches in English Gothic is notuncommon in Normandy, but so far as I know it doesnot occur elsewhere in France. At Rouen, Seez, Bayeux,Coutances, Dol, and Le Mans we find piers and columnswith a round abacus instead of the square or polygonalform usual in French Gothic, and this too is an Englishfeature. I n many of the facades, as for instance at Lisieux,Seez and Coutances the rose window so typical of Frenchdesign is wanting : in the front of the cathedral of Rouenit is comparatively insignificant, and there is none in theflamboyant facade of S. Maclou. Normandy also seemsto have been the cradle of sexpartite vaulting, the originof which we have seen at the Abbaye aux Hommes atCaen, whence it spread far and wide into the He de France,to Paris and Sens. Among minor Norman peculiaritiesmay be mentioned the balustrades to the triforium gallery,of which there are instances in the Abbaye aux I lommes, Plate XXX VI. i. (,. i. BAYEUX < A fHEDRAL The Choir en. vm] NORMANDY 139 S. Pierre at Caen, and in the cathedral of Seez. Thecorbel tables in which Norman buildings abound both inNormandy and England are no doubt inherited from interLombardy. Arcading with interlacing arches was a arcadesfavourite ornament peculiar to the Normans, who carriedit with them as far as Sicily, where we find it at Palermo,Cefalu, and Monreale, and in Italy at Amalfi and in theGulf of Salerno, which was affected by Sicilian Normandy there is an early example of it at thechurch of Graville a few miles from Havre, and in Englandit abounds at Canterbury, at Castle Acre and CastleRising in Norfolk, at S. Cross in Hampshire, atMalmesbury and in Christchurch Priory. There arefaint survivals of it in the porch at Wells and in the apseat Norrey. Another special feature in Normandy is the central .Centraltower, which in England is a regular constituent part ofour
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