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4 HISTORY
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AUCIIITECTUIIE. J5,K,K
I.
wliicli the i)ointi.'d arcli seems (lerfeefly secondary to its rival, are tlie jjortal of tlie cathe-
dral at Bayeiix and the churches at Conchy, Civray, Senlis, and X'czelay, with tliose of
St. Kenii at Reims, and of Notre Dame at Chartres, Noyon, and Poitiers.
5A5- 'Ihe churches which have domical coverings deserve a short noiice Thev are the
cathedral at Cahors, St. l'"ront (ftjf. 169 and 16"0;, and St. Jitienne de la Cite, bjth at
I'L-rijjneux, the cathedral at Puy, and the cluirclies at Sonillac
(Jiff.
1.5S.
),
Angoulenie, Le
Roulet, and Loches, with the fourteen-sided cliurch at Rienx-IMerinville.
5'36. A Fiench critic of considerable repute tliinks that necessity, facility, and solidity i.i
construction, and a gift of varying tlie
decora'.ion, alone prompted the use of tlie |):)inud
arch in the soutli-east of France, where are buildings showing that arch in their lower
poitions, while the u|)|)er ))arts have semicircular work of the same age. It theref re
appears that if tlie architects in tlie southern provinces were the first to make the pointed arch,
tiiey were also the last to adopt the systematic and absolute use of it ; and the usual classi-
(ications of the pointed styles cannot serve as ptrfect indexes to the peri ;d of the evnploy-
uient of the subdivisions tiiat have been made, althougli it might iiave been su|)posed that
the spirit of methodical order which has eminently distinguished tlie French nation siitce
1 793 would have shown itself in an analysis of the architecture of their country Tiic
Conrite llistorique des Arts et Monuments, has issued the following table as in some sort
uuthoritative;

Arciiitecture with the

roiuid arch.
Architecture with the
round and pointed arch.
Architecture with
pointed arches.
F.RST rEition
From the fourth to the eleventh
century ....
Eleventh, and first half of the
twelfth, century
. .
.

SECOND FEIUOD.
Second half of the twelfth century
Tuiun i-Eiiion.
Tiiirteentli century . i
Fourteenth century . .
j
Sti/!c Latin.
Stjh Roman.
Style Ii'iiiut'io-nffii al OJ
Roman de transit OH.
Style offiral pii nai'e or
en lainette
Style o:/iial aecond'ii'e
or rayotuiant-
Style i:gi:-al tertiaire or
Jlamhoyant.
Fifteenth and early part of sixteenth
century, till 1480 (De Cauinont),
''
pure, afterwards transition .
5'M. But this list is not universally used, and in reading the works ofany French author
on niedia;val architecture, it is necessary toascertain whether he has followed it, or tliet;ible
propounded by IM. De Caununt as here given (with Mr. Poynter's parallel of Knglisli
periods)
In France.
Romanesque 9 50 to 1050
i'lansition 1030 to 1150
Primary (Gothiqne) i 150 to 1250
lOOD
1100
1 300
III Enylaiid.
Anglo-Saxon 970 to 1066
Norman 1066 to 1189
Transition 1189 to 1199
Early English

First Epoch (lancet) 11 99 to 1215

Second Epoch 1245 to l.i07
Secondary (ra/onnant)

Fir.st Epoch 1250 to 1300

Second Ei)0ch
1:300 to 1-iOO
Tertiary (Jla'nhoya'it)

First E|,ocli i403 to 1460

Second Epoch 1 4 GO to ... .
For the chdtean, M. de Cauinont ;ilso ])roposed the subjoined classificafic
[ Decorated English 1:507
J
to .577
1400
150J
Perpe:ulicular English
1377 to ... .
or Tnd
5th class. Fourteenth and first lialf of fif-
te nth century ; Secondary
and tertiary pointed.
6th

Second half of fifteenth and six-
teenth century:
Quater-
nary pointed.
1st class. Fifth to tenth century: Primitive
Roman.
2nd
Tenth and eleventh centmies:
First second iry.
3rd

End of eleventh and twelfth cen-
tury : First tert aiy.
4th

Thirteenth century : Primitive
pointed.
538. Before entering into the consideration of the style ogival. it will be desirable t)
explain that oyive, also written angite. designated originally a diagonal band in groined
vaulting formed by the inter.section either of barrel vaults or of keel vaults, to both of
which the terms loutc en croisee d'ogicea, or route d'oyiccs, were ap])licable. As equivalent