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Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t S. Michel de Vaucelles2and S. Contest are Romanesque, but there is a charming13th-century tower with a short square spire at S. Gillesin Caen; and there is another, more lofty and withshafted spire lights, at La Basse Allemagne. Othersaddle-back towers occur in the department of Calvadosat Formigny, Ryes, and Crepon. Norrey, between Bayeux and Caen, has a splendidfragment of a church which would be more at home ina town than in a remote village of two hundred souls.The nave is low and aisleless, with transitional windows.This is succeeded by a fine central tower of the 13thcentury with transepts and a short and high choir, whichhas the triple elevation of arcade, triforium, and cleres-tory, like a small cathedral. There is a chevet of five 1 Mr Bond illustrates others at Ickford in Oxfordshire, Wadenhoe inNorthamptonshire and Brentingby in Lincolnshire. English Church Archi-tecture, vol. II. 2 Illust. in my Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, vol. II. PlateCXXVIII. Plate XL •..
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T. G. J. \l III IK CH. VIIl) NORMANDY 151 bays with pointed arches on coupled columns with side Norreyshafts like Fig. 54, except that here all four are detached.The capitals are mostly a crochet. Attached to theambulatory are two apsidal chapels, each surmounted bya tall semi-octagonal spire with a strange and rathergrotesque effect. There is a rich late geometrical porchat the north transept, sadly dilapidated, and a four-lightgeometrical window in the south transept. All the mouldings are deeply undercut, like 13thcentury English work, but not so well profiled. Thereis a good deal of carving running round the ambulatory

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