The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 222
-pt is peculiar.The altar stands in the centre, and round it runs a wallwith five wide arches opening on a gallery which followsround the apse, and from which chapels radiate in thevarious faces of the octagon. The chief altar is thusvisible from almost any part of the choir. The upper church forms… … ,-^ 4W-H iJM « ,1 , I 198 MEDL^VAL PERIOD. It has, however, an effect of simple grandeur and spacious-ness owing to its size ; but from the shortness of the nave,there is a want of due proportion in the various parts.The choir, as is usual in Cistertian churches of this date,is very short, the apse…
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