The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 243
t the ancient church ofSt Sauveur and its octagonal baptistery exhibit the Romaninfluence, extending down to a comparatively late date.The baptistery is of the sixth century, but the upper por-tion has been restored in the style of the eighteenth century,and has thus completely lost its proper… … FIG. 94. ST SAUVEUR, AIX. supposed to have been built on part of the cella of thetemple of Apollo. It now forms the south aisle of theenlarged cathedral erected in the fifteenth century. But AIX-EN-PROVENXE. 219 this old church (according to Merimee) is itself a restora-tion of a still more ancient…
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