. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . a colonnette with a Romanesque dedication is to SS. Justus and Pastor, children 17 130 ST. BERTRAND DE COMMINGES martyred under Diocletian in 304 at Complutum inSpain, and the church is largely composed of antiquematerials, including many carved fragments. Theearliest portions, it is thought, may date from the seventh century. Thewest wall is flanked byfour buttresses, and stillshows traces of a littlelintelled door walled uplong ago. The floor,covered with marbleslabs, is ten steps belowthe
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . a colonnette with a Romanesque dedication is to SS. Justus and Pastor, children 17 130 ST. BERTRAND DE COMMINGES martyred under Diocletian in 304 at Complutum inSpain, and the church is largely composed of antiquematerials, including many carved fragments. Theearliest portions, it is thought, may date from the seventh century. Thewest wall is flanked byfour buttresses, and stillshows traces of a littlelintelled door walled uplong ago. The floor,covered with marbleslabs, is ten steps belowthe level of the church-yard, and the vaultsare supported on piers,some of which havepilaster strips towardthe nave, and somecoupled columns to sup-port the strengtheningarches of the waggonvaults (those under thetower) ; in the aislesquarter - circle archesspring from apses terminate the nave and aisles of four bays,the central one being the sanctuary. The length is 81feet, the breadth 41 feet. Round the apse runs a wall-arcade of eleven round arches upon a kind of ji«« PLAN OF S. JUST, VALCABRERE. THE CHURCH AT VALCABRERE 131 A similar arcading of three arches is on the wall of theea3tern bay of the north aisle, and remains of a similarwall arcading face it in the south aisle, the easternbay of nave and aisles having served as main arch of the apse is supported by coupledcolumns with very rough capitals, and the south apsehas single columns in a similar position. These columnsare antique, cut and placed one on the other regardlessof their proportion. A chequer cornice round theapse returns over the arches of the side apses, and isprolonged above the wall arcading. A round-headeddoor communicates with the north apse ; the southis used as sacristy, and is walled off. Through thevault of the main apse three small windows are piercedabove the three which appear beneath the arches ofthe wall arcade. Behind the high-altar is a light, two-stori
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