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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 345

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n length. Someremains of a church of the eleventh century were stillextant in 1836, when Merimee visited the island. It wasa simple basilica, having a nave of six bays, covered with apointed barrel vault, and side aisles with abutting vaults,like Thoronct. But, in 1876, these remains were swept… … FIG. 157. CLOISTERS, ST HONORAT. tian style, with a circular vault, strengthened with trans-verse ribs. The side next the cloister garth is enclosedwith a wall, in which only small openings or windows areperforated—not the usual wide arcade. Of the antique structures of the island an…

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