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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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he nave. The final innovation introduced in the XI century, and ahighly important one, was the system of interior passagewaysin the walls. This was distinctly a Norman invention and wasprobably first tried in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes of Caen. In anedifice of large dimensions it becomes of importance to provideaccess to all parts of the building, that necessary repairs may beexecuted without the necessity of erecting expensive scaftolding,and that constant watch may be kept on the conservation of thebuilding. Hence stairways were managed in the thickness ofthe wall, and a passageway, also in the thickness of the wall, ■ Examples of transeptal absidioles occur at Ste. Trinite, St. fitienne, and St. Nicolas ofCaen; at Mt. St. INIichel, St. George de Bocherville, Cerisj-la-Foret, Notre-Dame-sur-lEau ofDomfront, Audrien, Authenil, St. Ceneri, Pont-Audemer, Montebourg, Verson, etc. 2 Tribunes occur also at St. fitienne and St. Nicolas of Caen, St.-Denis-sur-Sarthon and atCerisy-la-Foret. 262
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SEXPARTITE VAULTS was built aloiifT the clearstory level. In churches where therewas no triforiuin gallery a similar passageway was constructedat the triforium level. The character of such passageways maybe seen in the section of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes (111. 126). These passageways influenced greatly the development ofNorman art. Being placed in the middle of a thick wall theytended to divide it into two parts and thus form a double wall.Now, when a window or an arcade was opened in such a doublewall, the builders soon discovered that an entrancing effect couldbe produced by giving one design to the opening in the innerwall, and another design to the opening in the outer wall —thus letting the eye look through one design at the other. Anearly example of this motive is the clearstory of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes as altered towards the close of the XI century (111.125, the left-hand bay). The idea became one of the peculiarcharacteristics of the Norman school; transmitted to the Nor-man Go

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