Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . CH. VIIl] NORMANDY i53 aisle seven cants rests on coupled shafts standing- farther apart Coutances cathedral than those at Sens, in order to carry a very thick is prepared for in the clustered pier also, which isarranged in two groups corresponding to the two columns(Fig. 63). A double aisle with radiating chapels sur- The choirrounds the choir and ckevet, divided by an arcade oncylindrical columns with a round abacus. The inner ofthe two aisles has the triple arrangement of arcade,triforium represented by a blank arcade, and cleres
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . CH. VIIl] NORMANDY i53 aisle seven cants rests on coupled shafts standing- farther apart Coutances cathedral than those at Sens, in order to carry a very thick is prepared for in the clustered pier also, which isarranged in two groups corresponding to the two columns(Fig. 63). A double aisle with radiating chapels sur- The choirrounds the choir and ckevet, divided by an arcade oncylindrical columns with a round abacus. The inner ofthe two aisles has the triple arrangement of arcade,triforium represented by a blank arcade, and clerestory,and this causes the main arcade to be very lofty. Theeffect of this is not good in the choir, the arcade being \Jairftavf. Fig. 63. very high, and the pairs of detached columns undulypulled out. The choir has no triforium, but a balustradedpassage below and in front of the clerestory the whole the interior of Coutances is disappointing,the best part being the inner aisle of the choir with itscylindrical columns (Plate XLII). In this part of the church all the abaci are round,while in the nave they are square. The vaults arequadripartite with a longitudinal ridge rib. There isno ridge rib in the nave. All the mouldings in archesand piers are very deeply cut. 154 NORMANDY [CH. VIII end The outside of the ckevet is very pleasing, and thebuttresses, which, as at Notre Dame at Paris, go in oneflight over both aisles, are effective. There is a curiousdevice in roofing the radiating chapels. In the Frenchckevet the chapels had each its own roof, polygonal asat Amiens, or round as at Noyon, according as thechapel was round or polygonal. These often rose upinto pyramida
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