in their arrangement. Among these may be mentioned that of Romain-Motier, the body of which certainly remains as it was when consecrated in the year 753. The narthex, which is in two stories, may be a century or two later, and the porch and east end are of the pointed style of the 12th or 13th century. The vaulting of the nave also can hardly be coeval with the original building.
454. Plan of the Church at Romain-Motier. (From Blavignac.[1]) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.
From other examples in the neighborhood, we may safely infer that it originally terminated eastward in one or three apses. Supposing these to be restored, we have a church of about 150 ft. in length by 55 in width across the nave, with transepts, a tower at the intersection, and nearly all the arrangements found at a much later age, and with scarcely any more reminiscence of the Romanesque style than is observable at Reichenau.
The external mode of decoration is very much that of the two churches of San Apollinare at Ravenna, but is carried one step further, inasmuch as in the upper story of the nave each compartment is divided into two arches, with no central support; in the tower there
455. View of the Church of Romain-Motier. (From Blavignac.)
- ↑ "Histoire de l'Architecture Sacrée du 4ᵐᵉ au 10ᵐᵉ Siècle dans les Évêchés de Genève, Lausanne, et Sion," 1853.
