THE STYLE OF LOUIS XII. 



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instance at St Ouen, Pont Audemer, Vieux St Etienne at Caen, St Remy 

 at Dieppe, la Trinite at Falaise, and St Pantaleon at Troyes. 



FEATURES. The mingling observable in designs as a whole can 

 also be found in individual features. At Avesnieres, for instance, is an 

 example of a transitional spire. But the spire was one of the first 

 features to be modified by the. Renaissance, steeples receiving a domical 

 instead of a sharply pointed termination, as exemplified in one of the 

 earliest pieces of church work of the period. The upper portion of 

 the north-west tower of Tours Cathedral (begun c. 1498, finished 1507), 

 probably by the brothers Francois, is a charming composition in its 

 general lines and shows a skilful blending of the two styles (Fig. 35). 

 The south-west tower is a copy of this begun in 1532. The west door- 

 way of Rouen Cathedral (1510), by Rouland le Roux, contains arabesque 

 pilasters among Gothic members : the chapel of St Esprit at Rue has 

 an elaborate stellar vault with pendents and Renaissance enrichments 

 (Fig. 32), and St Gengoult at Toul offers an example of a transitional 

 cloister. 



FITTINGS. This notice of transitional church work may appro- 

 priately be concluded by the enumeration of some examples of fittings 

 in the mixed style. 

 The cathedral of 

 Chartres possesses a 

 magnificent set of 

 stone choir screens 

 begun in 1514 (Fig. 

 31). Chapel screens 

 occur in the cathedral 

 of Evreux and St 

 Jacques at Dieppe. 

 In the Madeleine 

 Church at Troyes is 

 a celebrated rood 

 screen of audacious 

 late Gothic construc- 

 tion with insignificant 

 Renaissance orna- 

 ments. The churches 

 of Villemaur (Fig. 

 36), Guern, and Lam- 

 bader have good 

 wooden rood screens. 

 The stalls from Gail- 

 Ion (Fig. 30) are now 34. CASTLE CHAPEL AT USSE : WEST END (c. 1510-20). 



