Architecture, Medieval; Church architecture; Vaults (Architecture)
[260] The diagonals of many vaults in France and Spain and especially
in England had been decorated with carving, particularly in the early
Gothic period.
[261] Illustrated in Michel, IV, p. 858.
[262] Enlart, I, Fig. 318, opp. p. 558.
[263] Lubke, I, p. 540, Fig. 373. See also Freiberg-i-Sachsen, Cath.
(Hartung, I, pl. 5).
[264] Plan in Street, pl. IV, opp. p. 104.
[265] Plan in Street, pl. XII, opp. p. 194.
[266] Michel, III, p. 10, Fig. 4.
[267] Michel, III, p. 52, Fig. 31.
[268] Hartung, II, pl. 114.
[269] So far as the writer is aware.
[270] Michel, IV, p. 567, Fig. 376.
[271] Enlart, I, pp. 598-599, Fig. 323.
[272] Enlart, I, pp. 676-677, Fig. 345. See also Bristol cathedral,
Berkeley Chapel (cir. 1340) illustrated in Bond, p. 329.
[273] See Dehio and von Bezold, II, p. 82.
[274] Perhaps as early as between 1124-1140 when there was a
reconstruction of the cathedral. The character of their construction
certainly would not be inconsistent with such a date.
[275] Ribs rising in a somewhat similar manner are to be found in the
south of France, in the crypt of the church of Saint Gilles (Gard.)
(Ill. in Lasteyrie, p. 263, Fig. 253) or the chapel of the Pont
Saint-Benezet at Avignon (Vaucluse), where they mark the intersection
of two flattened tunnel vaults.
[276] Lincoln, Cath. nave aisle. Plan in Bond, pp. 308-9; Salisbury,
Cath.; Southwell, Minster.
[277] Hartung, I, pl. 16.
[278] Illustrated in Bond, p. 329.
[279] Examples include: Linköping, Cath.; Paderborn, Cath.; Minden,
Cath.; Mainz, S. Stephen; Landshut, Saint Martin; Prenzlau,
Marienkirche; Heidelberg, Peterskirche; Paris, Sainte Chapelle
(lower church); Chaumont, Ch.; Perugia, Cath.; Winchester, Cath.
(Lady chapel); Belem (Portugal) Ab. Ch.; Barcelona, Cath.;
Freiberg-i-Sachsen, Cath. (1494-1501); Hartung, I, pl. 5; Soest, Sta
Maria zur Wiese, Hartung, I, pl. 49; Stendal, S. Maria (cir. 1450),
Hartung, II, pl. 69.
[280] Hartung, III, pl. 126.
[281] Illustration in Lubke, I, p. 540, Fig. 373.
[282] See Butler, p. 78.
[283] See Lasteyrie, p. 480 and notes 1-2.
[284] From its elevation, this would seem to have been added later.
[285] Other examples include: Issoire, Saint Paul, and the churches at
Saint Saturnin and Saint Nectaire (Puy-de-Dôme).
[286] Illustrated in Lasteyrie, p. 445, Fig. 463.
[287] Illustrated in Enlart, I, Fig. 318, opp. p. 588.
[288] Saint Jean-au-Bois (Oise) (twelfth century); Épinal (Vosges)
(thirteenth century); Valentigny and Vendeuvre (Aube); Roberval,
Vauciennes, and Verberie (Oise); Brunembert (Pas-de-Calais); etc.
[289] See p. 131, note 16 for explanation of the use of the word
chevet.
[290] See also Tour (Calvados), Ch. Illustrated in Dehio and von
Bezold, II, p. 187. Rys (Calvados), Ch. Baudot and Perrault-Dabot II,
pl. 12; Omonville-la-Rogue, Ch. Baudot and Perrault-Dabot, II, pl. 46;
Puiseaux (Loiret), Ch. Baudot and Perrault-Dabot, III, pl. 28.
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