. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . y liesArles-sur-Tech, a quaint little town in which it is saidthat the Catalonian manners and customs, includingthe characteristic dances, are preserved better thananywhere else in this part of the French appears to have owed its foundation to a Benedictineabbey established here in 778. The Church of S. Mariewas not finished when it was consecrated in 1046 or1048, and a second consecration took place in 1157, atwhich Berenger, Archbishop of Narbonne, officiated,assisted by Artal, the Bish
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . y liesArles-sur-Tech, a quaint little town in which it is saidthat the Catalonian manners and customs, includingthe characteristic dances, are preserved better thananywhere else in this part of the French appears to have owed its foundation to a Benedictineabbey established here in 778. The Church of S. Mariewas not finished when it was consecrated in 1046 or1048, and a second consecration took place in 1157, atwhich Berenger, Archbishop of Narbonne, officiated,assisted by Artal, the Bishop of the diocese, and theBishops of Gerona, Barcelona, and Vich. It has anave of five bays, vaulted with a pointed barrel-vault,through which round - headed windows are height of the nave is 55 feet, and the length about145 feet. The nave arcade has tall round arches, withimposts, but no other moulding but the string-courseat the starting of the vault. A second lower row ofround arches belonging to the aisles has a secondimpost going half across the pier—a very extraordinary. f wl-l < THE CHURCH 321 arrangement which has been explained as the result ofthe later vaulting of the nave, the second half of thepiers having been added at that time by way of the sanctuary is a small bay of a height betweenthat of the nave and of the aisles, the string at thespringing of the vault being omitted. The arch of theapse has two orders, and the choir is now arrangedbehind the high-altar. The south aisle terminates ina small apse, the high round arch of which is levelwith the sanctuary arch, and also has two orders. Theaisles are vaulted with a round barrel-vault. In thesouth aisle are two big chapels with unmoulded roundarches, and impost mouldings on the piers, but withquadripartite ribbed vaulting and an uncarved centralboss. They are lighted by pointed traceried north aisle has a square-ended apse, with a roundbarrel-vault, becoming pointed beyon
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