. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Tiu. l(iJ —CuuECH OF Si. S£Kmx, Toulouse. ROMAXKSQUE. 229 niarlicJ. Tlie nave arcailos generally sprang from piers(Fig. 170), more rarely from columns. Arches arc con-stantly met with recessed, in receding planes,* thefirst stage of progress to-?\vards a Gothic treatment,and are occasionally slightlymoulded (Fig. 171). Westerndoorways are often, highlyenriched with sculpture; andthe carving and. sculpturegenerally, though often rude,are full of vitalitJ^ Towersoccur, usually square, morerarely octagonal. Window-lights are frequently groupedtwo
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Tiu. l(iJ —CuuECH OF Si. S£Kmx, Toulouse. ROMAXKSQUE. 229 niarlicJ. Tlie nave arcailos generally sprang from piers(Fig. 170), more rarely from columns. Arches arc con-stantly met with recessed, in receding planes,* thefirst stage of progress to-?\vards a Gothic treatment,and are occasionally slightlymoulded (Fig. 171). Westerndoorways are often, highlyenriched with sculpture; andthe carving and. sculpturegenerally, though often rude,are full of vitalitJ^ Towersoccur, usually square, morerarely octagonal. Window-lights are frequently groupedtwo or more under one of a basket-shape,and with a square abacus,often richly sculptured, areemployed. In Xormnndy, and gener-ally in the North of Franco,round-arched architecturewas excellently carried out,and churches remarkableboth for their extent ardtheir great dignity and soli-dity were erected. Gener-ally speaking, however, Xorman architecture, especiallyas met with in Normandy itself, is less ornate than the. Fig. 170.—Nave Arcade at , Toulouse. * Gothic and Eenaisarce Architecture, chap. v. p. G2. 230 CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. Romanesque of Southern France; in fact some of the bestexamples seem to sulier from a deticiency of ornament. Nv. ^v
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