Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912) (14803946893)

Identifier: medievalarchitec01port (find matches)
Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries



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thuschanging the system from alternate to uniform, was actuallytaken. This uniform system with engaged shaft was repeatedat St. Nicolas of Caen and at St. Georges de Bocherville (111.127), and thereafter became the typical Norman design, althoughthe alternate system occasionally persisted alongside of it. A curious variation of the motive of the engaged shaft occursat Notre-Dame-sur-lEau of Domfront,^ where a shaft, engagedon the aisle side of the main piers, is carried up along the out-side of the clearstory wall to form a buttress. Such a construc-tion seems to prove that the Norman builders, at least in thesecond half of the XI century, far from considering the engagedshaft as a structural feature to be used in connection with thevault, rather regarded it as a purely decorative element to be e.g., Graville-Ste.-Honorine (c. 1100.) 2 Probably also in the XII century church of Than. It is possible, however, that here theaisles (which are destroyed) may have had transverse arches. 260
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Jl.I.. I:;:;. \M,:n.-MMx 1I..I .. ..( ( .,,-ii. I^M^1,1,- NORMAN VAULTS used as fancy suggested; — quite in the spirit that the samefeature is used on the fa9ade of S. Miehele of Pavia. Groin vaults were employed in the aisles and triforium ofJumieges (111. 124), in the aisles of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes(111. 126), and in fact quite regularly in the aisles of all the largerNorman churches. However, a few monuments — notably theAbbaye-aux-Dames at Caen, in its original condition — werestill erected with wooden roofs throughout. The groin vaultswere always on a nearly square plan. Before the end of the XIcentury, however, the Normans had learned not only to con-struct groin vaults on an oblong plan, but even to erect themover the great choir (111. 127). This was a remarkable advance.It was perhaps easier to throw a vault over a choir, short andwell abutted by the hea\y piers of the crossing and the half-dome of the apse, than to groin-vault an entire nave. And yetthe step from the on