Architecture, Medieval; Church architecture; Vaults (Architecture)
[372] Examples include: Bologna, San Francesco; Auxerre Cath. (planned
for six-part type of vaults), etc.
[373] Other examples not mentioned include Albi (Tarn) cath.; Troyes
(Aube) cath.; Semur-en-Auxois (Côte-d’or), Notre Dame.
[374] It is possible that it owes this arrangement to the church of
Saint Remi (Fig. 64).
[375] Although not originally planned for four-part vaults in the
choir, its present arrangement illustrates the combination referred to.
[376] This is not a noticeable fault with sexpartite choir vaulting
since the crowns of all the window cells form similar angles.
[377] Porter, II, p. 83, Fig. 176.
[378] In referring to chevet vaults, the terms three-celled,
four-celled, etc., refer to the number of window panels or severies,
while the terms four-part, five-part, etc., refer to the total number
of severies in the vault, generally one more than the number of window
cells.
[379] See also the five-part chevet in the cathedral of Saint Louis at
Blois (Loire-et-Cher) which is, however, of much later date.
[380] This may explain the fact that the buttressing rib type of
chevet persisted side by side with this fourth form.
[381] In St. Étienne this rib would seem to be an addition to the
original chevet.
[382] Street, pl. XXV. op. p. 408.
[383] Bond, p. 63.
[384] This church has a rather exceptional chevet in that it is
considerably more than a semicircle in plan.
[385] Plan in Street, pl. XVI, opp. p. 306.
[386] The double apse of the Chapel of the Seminaire at Bayeux
(thirteenth century) (Baudot and Perrault-Dabot, II, pl. 44) has two
chevets of similar character.
[387] Plan in Caumont, p. 590.
[388] See the illustration in Bond, p. 165.
[389] See also Pirna, Hauptkirche (1502-1546), Hartung, I, pl. 57.
[390] See also Le Mans, Notre Dame-de-la-Couture: Padua, Sant’ Antonio.
[391] And sometimes in churches where this arrangement is not found.
[392] See also Neubourg (Eure). Plan in Enlart, I, Fig. 317.
[393] Baudot and Perrault-Dabot, I, pl. 46.
[394] See Fig. 31.
[395] The vault has been recently reconstructed along original lines.
[396] A feature which certainly enhances the present appearance of the
cathedral, though it is quite possible that the builders originally
intended to shut off this vista by a high reredos behind the altar.
[397] Compare for example the chevet of Reims with that of Saint
Urbain.
[398] Needless to say, no flying-buttresses are necessary with such a
vault as the thrusts are easily absorbed by the piers.
[399] Similar openings are to be seen in the apse of Saint Nazaire at
Carcassonne.
[400] For other examples showing the employment of this feature even
in the Renaissance see Enlart, I, p. 506, note 2.
[401] Hartung, I, pl. 15.
[402] For a discussion of this point see E. Gall’s series of articles
on the ambulatory in Monatschefte fur Kunstwissenschaft, beginning
with the fifth volume, 1912, pp. 134-149.
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