The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 226
lowed out of rock. One of these, which is nearly filledwith a great stone seat, is called the confessional of StTrophime. At the west end there is a space forming akind of entrance porch or narthex. The ancient chapel or hermitage is entirely excavatedin the rock, and has a seat left along the… … FIG. 80. HERMITAGE OF ST TROPHniE, MONT-MAJOUR—CHAPEL OF ST PETER. The outer chapel (Fig. 80) is not of so great antiquity,but the ornament of the caps and form of the tunnel 196 MEDIAEVAL TERIOD. vault belong to the earliest period of the Provencal style—probably the ninth or tenth century. The…
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