Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 306
CIRCULAR EDIFICES very clever way shown in the pUin (111. 85). The nave wasmade octagonal, the exterior wall sixteen-sided, a device bymeans of which the aisle was divided into alternately squareand triangular compartments easily covered with groinedvaults. Aachen was extensively copied throughout… … Iix. 88. — Plan of Church at Germigny-les-Pres. (FromArch, de la Com. des Mon. Hist.) come a square surmounted by a construction that suggests acentral tower rather than a dome. The aisle also has beenmade square, and three (possibly four) apses have been added.It is curious that a plan almost…
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