Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . upper triforium arcade, and all thewindows are still round arched. The piers are alternatelyclustered and cylindrical, as if prepared for sexpartitevaulting, though the vaults are actually was, however, a fire in 1293, and the vaults mayhave had to be reconstructed then, and the plan the sexpartite form was originally intended is provedby the greater substance given to the transverse archesresting on the larger piers. The apsidal transepts have no aisles round them,thus escaping the heaviness of those at S. Ma
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . upper triforium arcade, and all thewindows are still round arched. The piers are alternatelyclustered and cylindrical, as if prepared for sexpartitevaulting, though the vaults are actually was, however, a fire in 1293, and the vaults mayhave had to be reconstructed then, and the plan the sexpartite form was originally intended is provedby the greater substance given to the transverse archesresting on the larger piers. The apsidal transepts have no aisles round them,thus escaping the heaviness of those at S. Maria inCapitolio at Cologne. The west front (Plate IX) is of a later date, but Thewe$twith its great towers and projecting porch is quite amongthe finest in France, nor need we regret the steepleswhich would have taken the place of the picturesqueroofs which now crown the towers. The 14th centuryportals have been ruthlessly defaced and stripped of 76 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC [ch. iv Noyon their statuary but retain some exquisitely carved Fig. 28. On the north side of the nave was a small cloister,said to have been built in 1270, of which only the west Plate IX \
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