RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



SCALE OF' 



1 

 SCALEOPl- 



generally forming part 

 of the boundary of the 

 churchyard. They are 

 oblong and rectangular 

 buildings with two 

 gables, but sometimes 

 one end is polygonalwith 

 a gable on each face of 

 the apse. The outer side 

 is plain, but that facing 

 the churchyard and the 

 ends highly enriched. 

 The principal examples 

 are at Landerneau (St 

 Thomas), I.andivisiau, 

 St Thegonnec (Figs. 181 

 and 182)^. 1585), Sizun 

 (Fig. 187) (1588), La 

 Roche Maurice (1639), 

 Guimiliau (1648), Lam- 

 paul (1667). 



CALVARIES. Monu- 

 ments of the calvary 

 class are not confined 

 to Brittany, but there 

 they are of unusual 

 elaboration as architec- 

 tural compositions and 

 crowded with figures. 

 There are examples at 

 Lampaul, Guimiliau (r. 

 1585) (Fig. 1 86), and 

 St Thegonnec (1610). 



GATEWAYS. The 

 cemetery entrance is 

 rendered imposing in 

 various manners. At 

 St Thegonnec ( 1 588) are 

 four massive piers (Fig. 

 183) loaded with pin- 



i 1 1 1 JMETRCS nacles, turrets, volutes, 



182. Sr THEGONNEC: OSSUARY pediments, and the cen- 



(NoRTH END). tral opening is spanned 



Measured and Drawn by C. W. Pike, by an arch. In Other 



12 I 2 5 4 5 



15 



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