Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 126
III. 173. — St. Germer. Interior POLYGONAL APSES is an apse polygonal externally (111. 174), and at Ciry isanother example about contemporaiy. Nevertheless it was onlyin the second half of the century that this motive becamethoroughly established. … III. 174. — Plan of Auvers. (From Arch, de la Com. desMon. Hist.) The lack of enthusiasm with which the polygonal apse was atfirst received must be attributed to the strength of the traditionthat the east end of the church should be semicircular, for the 1 As at Azy-Bonneil, Bussiares, Chassemy,…
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