A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
History
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
FRANCE: Previous to 11th century: St. Germiny-des-Prés,
806, Chapel of the Trinity, St. Honorat-des-Lérins; Ste. Croix de
Montmajour.--11th century: Cérisy-la-Forêt and abbey church of
Mont St. Michel, 1020 (the latter altered in 12th and 16th
centuries); Vignory; St. Genou; porch of St. Bénoit-sur-Loire,
1030; St. Sépulchre at Neuvy, 1045; Ste. Trinité (Abbaye aux
Dames) at Caen, 1046, vaulted 1140; St. Etienne (Abbaye aux
Hommes) at Caen, same date; St. Front at Perigueux, 1120; Ste.
Croix at Quimperlé, 1081; cathedral, Cahors, 1050-1110; abbey
churches of Cluny (demolished) and Vézelay, 1089-1100; circular
church of Rieux-Mérinville, church of St. Savin in Auvergne, the
churches of St. Paul at Issoire and Notre-Dame-du-Port at
Clermont, St. Hilaire and Notre-Dame-la-Grande at Poitiers; also
St. Sernin (Saturnin) at Toulouse, all at close of 11th and
beginning of 12th century.--12th century: Domical churches of
Aquitania and vicinity; Solignac and Fontévrault, 1120; St.
Etienne (Périgueux), St. Avit-Sénieur; Angoulême, Souillac,
Broussac, etc., early 12th century; St. Trophime at Arles, 1110,
cloisters later; church of Vaison; abbeys and cloisters at
Montmajour, Tarascon, Moissac (with fragments of a 10th-century
cloister built into present arcades); St. Paul-du-Mausolée;
Puy-en-Vélay, with fine church. Many other abbeys, parish
churches, and a few cathedrals in Central and Northern France
especially.
CHAPTER XIV.
EARLY MEDIÆVAL ARCHITECTURE.--_Continued._
IN GERMANY, GREAT BRITAIN, AND SPAIN.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Hübsch and Reber. Bond, _Gothic
Architecture in England_. Also Brandon, _Analysis of Gothic
Architecture_. Boisserée, _Nieder Rhein_. Ditchfield, _The
Cathedrals of England_. Hasak, _Die romanische und die gotische
Baukunst_ (in _Handbuch d. Arch._). Lübke, _Die Mittelalterliche
Kunst in Westfalen_. Möller, _Denkmäler der deutschen Baukunst_.
Puttrich, _Baukunst des Mittelalters in Sachsen_. Rickman, _An
Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture_. Scott,
_English Church Architecture_. Van Rensselaer, _English
Cathedrals_.
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