Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . CAfHTAL^inCHAfa .of . Fig. loi. been so much restored as to have lost its authenticity ina great measure. It consists of a barrel-vaulted naveending in an apse, raised on four steps, with a cryptbelow, covered with a cross-groined vault and perfectly CH. xxii] FRANCE—BURGUNDY 119 plain. The apse is square but has a semi-dome, thecorners of the square being curiously cut off by curvedarches carried on small columns. The capitals of thesecolumns have escaped restoration and are very typical oftheir period (Fig. loi). The cathedral of S. Ben
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . CAfHTAL^inCHAfa .of . Fig. loi. been so much restored as to have lost its authenticity ina great measure. It consists of a barrel-vaulted naveending in an apse, raised on four steps, with a cryptbelow, covered with a cross-groined vault and perfectly CH. xxii] FRANCE—BURGUNDY 119 plain. The apse is square but has a semi-dome, thecorners of the square being curiously cut off by curvedarches carried on small columns. The capitals of thesecolumns have escaped restoration and are very typical oftheir period (Fig. loi). The cathedral of S. Benigne at Dijon still retains the pijon,crypt or lower storey of a curious round chapel originallyattached to the east end of a basilica which preceded thepresent Gothic building. All the upper part of therotunda was destroyed in 1792, but plans, sections, andelevations of the complete building have fortunately beenpreserved in Planchets Histoire gdndrale et paiticulierede Bourgogne, published in 1739, when the edifice wasintact. At th
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