Saint-Sernin

church, Toulouse, France

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chapels

  • Les Vauxbelets: Little Chapel
    In chapel

    St. Sernin, at Toulouse, has no fewer than 17 pentagonal chapels, linked by narrow passages. The multiplication of chapels in the later Middle Ages stemmed from two innovations: the inclusion of the chantry, a special place of worship established by a donor for the singing…

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Romanesque architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Romanesque

    1062–95), Saint-Sernin at Toulouse (1077 or 1082–1118), and the new cathedral at Santiago de Compostela itself (c. 1075–1211). This was a real family of buildings; each one had a splendid apse with ambulatory (a sheltered place to walk) and radiating chapels, a transept and nave with…

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  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: Stone construction

    … in Spain (begun 1078) and Saint Sernin at Toulouse (begun 1080). The cross vault raised on columns was seen again at Speyer Cathedral (1030–65, reconstructed c. 1082–1137) and Durham Cathedral (1093–1133), and the domes of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice (late 11th century) and the cathedral of Saint-Front in

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