Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . tPS ??-«i>- ^M^. f S. JUNIEN Plate XCVn. 5- UUa^ ); S. HILAIRE—POITIERS CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 43 been roofed with wood, and when in 1130 it was de- s. Hiiaire,termined to vault the nave the span was reduced tomore practicable dimensions by building an interiorarcade on each side which was connected with the olderside walls by flying arches and small cross vaults. Butthe nave was covered with polygonal quasi-domes,irregular octagons, springing not from real pendentivesbut from tromps or squinch-arches thrown across theangles, like those we have see
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . tPS ??-«i>- ^M^. f S. JUNIEN Plate XCVn. 5- UUa^ ); S. HILAIRE—POITIERS CH. xix] FRANCE—AQUITAINE 43 been roofed with wood, and when in 1130 it was de- s. Hiiaire,termined to vault the nave the span was reduced tomore practicable dimensions by building an interiorarcade on each side which was connected with the olderside walls by flying arches and small cross vaults. Butthe nave was covered with polygonal quasi-domes,irregular octagons, springing not from real pendentivesbut from tromps or squinch-arches thrown across theangles, like those we have seen above in the churches ofSyria. These of course are in no sense of the word realdomes, but so far as they go they are imitations of thetrue domes of Perigueux and Cahors. Le Puy-en-Velav does not strictly belong to Aquitaine Le Puy-so much as to Auvergne, but there was a strong connexion ^ ^ ^^between the two districts, and the covering of the greatcathedral there affords another instance of the influence ofthe domical idea. This church was built in three instal-ments. The
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