[412] See [pp. 385-6].
[413] The design of this chevet is almost a repetition of that of the church at Avenières, near Laval, which is said to have been commenced as early as A.D. 1040, though most of it is certainly later by a century than this.
[414] I might perhaps add Tarazona Cathedral to this list.
[415] See ground-plan, [Plate XIV.]
[416] The round portion of the Temple Church, London, has its aisle groined with alternate bays of square and triangular outline. The latter have no ribs, and are constructed differently from those at Toledo.
[417] Facsimile of the Sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort. Eng. edit. Edited by Professor Willis. Plate XXVIII.
[418] Beauvais cathedral was commenced in A.D. 1225.
[419] See the plan, [Plate I.] The chapel marked B is, I think, the only original one; and this repeated five times will probably give the exact plan of the original chevet.
[420] The commerce of the south of Spain with England was considerable; and it is just possible that some of the middle-pointed work in Valencia may have an English origin. The English sovereigns encouraged the Catalan traders by considerable immunities to frequent their ports during the fourteenth century.—Macpherson, ‘Annals of Commerce,’ i. 502, &c.
[421] I speak only of town churches here: our little English village churches are the most perfect in the world, so thoroughly characteristic, and at the same time so suitable for their work, that we may always study them with greater gain than any others elsewhere in Europe.