Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album — John Shaqi
Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: AlbumLebert, Marie
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Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album
Lebert, Marie
Churches -- France -- Manche; France -- Description and travel
023. Bréville. The church plan. Regularly oriented from west to east,
the rectangular building is formed by a two-row nave and a two-row
choir with a flat apse. The whole building has an external length of
27,75 meters and an external width of 7,65 meters (width of the front).
The tower rises between choir and nave. The small five-sided building
in the extension of the choir houses the sacristy. Plan by Marie Lebert.
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024. Bréville. The church tower, between choir and nave, has a
Romanesque base, while the floor in slight recess and the spire are
from the late 15th or early 16th century. Photo by Alain Dermigny.
[Alain-010]
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025. Bréville. The church tower reaching the sky. Photo by Claude
Rayon. [Claude-07]
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026. Bréville. The first floor and spire of the church tower. The first
floor is opened on each side by a long narrow opening. The octagonal
stone spire has angles rounded by tori, with a small gable with thin
columns in the extension of each opening. Photo by Alain Dermigny.
[Alain-011]
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027. Bréville. The Romanesque gate in the south base of the tower, with
a semi-circular arch formed by a grain molded by a torus followed by a
chamfer carved with slightly visible saw-teeth. The archivolt is a
thick band adorned with saw-teeth in high relief carved with a hollow
row of triangular sticks. The archivolt rests on the right on a stone
carved with a human head, while disappearing on the left into the
masonry of the nave. The central keystone of the arch is adorned with a
large human head carved in high relief. The capitals baskets of the
attached columns are carved with two angle hooks. The two human heads,
carved in a limestone, didn't resist well to the test of time, as well
as the angle hooks. Photo by Alain Dermigny. [Alain-012]
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028. Bréville. Sketch of the Romanesque gate in the south base of the
tower. Sketch by Marie Lebert.
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029. Bréville. Above the Romanesque gate in the south base of the
tower, a human head carved in a limestone didn't resist well to the
test of time, unlike the heads carved in granite in the south gate of
the church of Yquelon. Photo by Alain Dermigny. [Alain-013]
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030. Bréville. The Romanesque gate in the south base of the tower. The
archivolt topping the semi-circular arch rests on a granite stone
carved with a human head. Photo by Alain Dermigny. [Alain-014]
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031. Bréville. A Romanesque modillion carved with a human head, under
the cornice. Most other modillions, more recent, are plain and only
chamfered. Photo by Alain Dermigny. [Alain-015]
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032. Bréville. A Romanesque modillion carved with a human head, under
the cornice. This modillion is above the bay of the second row of the
nave. Photo by Alain Dermigny. [Alain-016]
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