Architectural Antiquities of NormandyTurner, Dawson
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Architectural Antiquities of Normandy
Turner, Dawson
Architecture -- France -- Normandy; Architecture, Norman
Castle at Tancarville 101
86. Entrance to the Castle at Tancarville 103
87. Church of the Holy Cross, at St. Lo, West Door-way 104
88. -- -- -- -- -- Sculpture 106
89. Castle of Falaise, North-West View 107
90. -- -- North View 109
91. Interior of the Church of Creully 110
92. \ Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, at Coutances, West Front 111
93. /
94. -- -- -- -- -- -- Elevation of
the Nave 115
95. Mount St. Michael, on the Approach from Pontorson 116
96. -- -- Interior of the Knights' Hall 120
97. Abbey Church of Cerisy, Interior of the Choir 121
98. Church at Oyestraham, West Front 122
99. Cathedral Church of Notre Dame, at Séez, West Front 123
100. -- -- -- -- -- Elevation of the
Nave 125
The Figure referred to in the Note, p. 117, is inserted at the
beginning of the Preface.--As a Vignette, at the end of the
Preface, is introduced a View of the Church of Querqueville, near
Cherbourg, a building of unquestionable antiquity, and here
figured, as the only instance in Normandy, or possibly in
existence, of a church whose transepts, as well as the chancel,
terminate in a semi-circular form. In these parts, the walls are
formed of herring-bone masonry, which is not the case with the
tower or nave, which are more modern. The tower is, however,
probably of the Norman æra; and the peculiar masonry which
distinguishes the chancel, is still observable for a few feet
above its junction with the nave. Its ornaments may be compared
with those of St. Peter's church, at Barton-upon-Humber, and
Earl's-Barton church, Northamptonshire, both of them figured in
the _fifth_ volume of _Britton's Architectural Antiquities_, and
both evidently Norman. The church of Querqueville has no
buttresses. Its length, from east to west, is forty-eight feet and
six inches; from north to south, forty-three feet and four inches;
the width of the nave is nine feet and nine inches.
PLATES LV. AND LVI.
CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS, AT CAEN.
[Illustration: Plate 55. CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS, AT CAEN.
_West end._]
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