The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 228
hoir of the crypt 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… … 198 MEDI/EVAL 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 beginning almost at…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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