Architecture, Medieval; Church architecture; Vaults (Architecture)
[190] A later instance does appear and this, too, on a very large
scale in the rebuilt choir vaults of Beauvais cathedral (1284), but
the six-part vaults of this church are entirely due to the subdivision
of four-part rectangular vaults in order to obtain greater stability.
[191] Among the more important examples not mentioned are: Laon
(Aisne), Cath.; Mantes (Seine-et-Oise), Cath.; Dijon (Côte-d’Or),
Notre Dame, etc.
[192] Other examples are: Lincoln, Cath. choir; (Fig. 35) Durham,
Cath. east transept; Rochester, Cath. presbytery, (Moore, Mediaeval
Church Architecture of England, pl. XVIII), etc.
[193] Porter, Cons. of Lombard and Gothic Vaults, Figs. 58-60.
[194] Other Italian examples are: Casamari, Ch.; San Galgano, Ch.; San
Martino, Ch.; etc.
[195] This bay was rebuilt (cir. 1237-1239) after the fall of the
tower and is, therefore, later than the transept (cir. 1200).
[196] In La Trinité there are no side aisles, but a series of chapels
constitutes virtually the same arrangement.
[197] Lubke, I, p. 440, Fig. 313.
[198] Sturgis, II, p. 435, Fig. 382.
[199] Sturgis, II, p. 439, Fig. 386.
[200] See also one bay of Lincoln choir (Fig. 35) rebuilt cir. 1239,
also Bourges, S. Pierre-le-Guillard, early thirteenth century, vaults
rebuilt on original lines in the fifteenth century. Nesle (Somme)
Ch. also has this vaulting form according to Moore, Mediaeval Church
Architecture of England, p. 114, note 1.
[201] See also Erfurt, Frankiskanerkirche.
[202] Gurlitt, pl. 83.
[203] Ex. Voulton (Seine-et-Marne), Ch. Baudot and Perrault-Dabot, I,
pl. 62.
[204] Bumpus, illustration opp. p. 92.
[205] Ill. in Moore, p. 51.
[206] See p. 96 and Fig. 44.
[207] Bond, p. 643.
[208] Rivoira, II, pp. 235-243.
[209] Moore, Mediaeval Church Architecture of England, p. 25.
[210] Lasteyrie, p. 497, note 1.
[211] Bond, p. 370.
[212] Bond, pp. 315 and 319.
[213] Bond, p. 319.
[214] The system, moreover, is complete with a transverse arch which
might seem to indicate that it was later than that at Durham.
[215] The other three are, the sexpartite and pseudo-sexpartite vaults
and the irregular four-part method employed at Durham.
[216] Moore, p. 80, Fig. 32.
[217] Whether these concealed buttresses were first used in Normandy
or the Ile-de-France is an open question, but in either case their
origin would seem to be traceable to such prototypes as the ramping
walls above the transverse aisle arches of such Lombard churches as
Sant’ Ambrogio at Milan and perhaps even to Roman monuments like the
basilica of Maxentius at Rome. The really important question is to
learn when these concealed buttresses were first raised above the
aisle roofs to constitute true flying-buttresses. This would seem to
have taken place in the Ile-de-France, perhaps at Domont as Porter
suggests (Porter, II, pp. 91-92), or at Noyon towards the middle of
the twelfth century.
[218] Ill. in Moore, p. 76.
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