Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . concerns the ex- terior, one might even risk thinking Saint-Martin-des-Champs it more charming than the exterior of any Gothic apse ever built. Many of these Romanesque apses of theeleventh and twelfth centuries still remain in France, showing them-selves in unsuspected parish churches, here and there, but always asurprise for their quiet, unobtrusive grace, making a harmony with theRomanesque tower, if there is one, into which they rise, as at Saint-Sernin; but all these churches had only one aisle, and, in the interior,there came invariable trouble when the v
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . concerns the ex- terior, one might even risk thinking Saint-Martin-des-Champs it more charming than the exterior of any Gothic apse ever built. Many of these Romanesque apses of theeleventh and twelfth centuries still remain in France, showing them-selves in unsuspected parish churches, here and there, but always asurprise for their quiet, unobtrusive grace, making a harmony with theRomanesque tower, if there is one, into which they rise, as at Saint-Sernin; but all these churches had only one aisle, and, in the interior,there came invariable trouble when the vaults rose in height. Thearchitect of Chartres, in 1200, could get no direct help from these, oreven from Paris which was a beautifully perfect apse, but had noapsidal chapels. The earliest apse that could have served as a sugges-tion for Chartres — or, at least, as a point of observation for us —was that of the Abbey Church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, whichwe went to see in Paris, and which is said to date from about 120 MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES
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