Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . hurch at Royat is peculiar. It is cruciform, square ended, single aisled, and barrel vaulted. Thechoir is raised by nine steps above a vaulted is a central tower, square, surmounted by anoctagonal stage carried on squinches. The east end hasa triplet of round-headed windows and above them acusped sex-foil circle of the 13th century. Fortified The outside of the building is regularly fortified like a castle with parapet and machicolations, and on thesouth side is a castle yard or bailey. The crypt isextremely interesting. It consists of three
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . hurch at Royat is peculiar. It is cruciform, square ended, single aisled, and barrel vaulted. Thechoir is raised by nine steps above a vaulted is a central tower, square, surmounted by anoctagonal stage carried on squinches. The east end hasa triplet of round-headed windows and above them acusped sex-foil circle of the 13th century. Fortified The outside of the building is regularly fortified like a castle with parapet and machicolations, and on thesouth side is a castle yard or bailey. The crypt isextremely interesting. It consists of three aisles fourbays long, cross-groined without ribs, and the columnshave capitals of an early type. Le Puy The cathedral of Le Puy, as has been said above, en Velay has characteristics of the styles both of Auvergne andAquitaine. To the influence of the latter school belongsthe domical construction of the nave which has beendescribed in a former chapter. To that of the formermay be traced the polychrome decoration of the masonry Plate CXX.
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