The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 302
o smaller chapels with altars in each transept,extend towards the east. At Thoronet the choir andchapels have apsidal terminations, but in some Cistertianchurches the east end is square. Nothing could exceedthe unadorned nature of the design, both externally andinternally. The west end (Fig. 123)… … FIG. 124. ABBEY CHURCH OF THORONET. 27S MEDI.EVAL PERIOD. window over the apse, give the principal Hght in thechurch, which, Hke the other Southern churches vaultedon the same principle, has no clerestory. There is analcove for a tomb in the exterior of the wall of the southaisle, but it is now…
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