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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 346

An illustration from The architecture of Provence and the Riviera, 1888, leaf 346 — It is of the same simple type asThoronet, but on a much smaller scale. The plan (Fig.153) consists of one long nave, 87 feet in length by 20 feetwide, with a round apse at the east end; and it has no aisles CANNES. 315 or transept The walls are perfectly plain, both internallyand externally, and… … FIG. 152. CHURCH OF ST ANNE. plain ovalo moulding as at Thoronet, and the part of itforming the impost of the transverse ribs is cut off at thesides, like the impost of the cloister arches at that abbey.Some of these imposts, adjoining the central door, have afew rude and scarcely intelligible…

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