194 



RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCK. 



licence pure classical 

 design was not wholly 

 forgotten, while the 

 niche-like porch of 

 St Nizier at Lyons 

 (Fig. 189), attributed 

 to de 1'Orme, is an 

 example of the fully 

 matured Renais- 

 sance. 



PORCHES. The 

 narthex- porches 

 added to the chapel 

 at Champigny - sur - 

 Veude (Figs. 190- 

 192) and the Made- 

 leine church at Ver- 

 neuil are, again, ex- 

 amples of advanced 

 Renaissance design, 

 the former with 

 beautiful detail and 

 decoration of an 

 early type, and the 

 latter of the soberer 

 Henry II. manner. 

 Projecting porches 

 rare as ever are 



exemplified by the charmingly detailed one of Livilliers, and the florid 

 and grotesque one of the Carmelite church at Dole. 



GABLES. In facades the gable is sometimes the first portion to 

 be affected by newer method of design, as in the double transept at 

 Magny-en-Vexin (c. 1548) and the front of St Pierre, Auxerre (Fig. 179), 

 which show in miniature some semblance of the classical basilica front 

 with high pedimented centre and scroll wings that became the rule 

 for entire church fronts in the next century. The new screen facades 

 erected by de 1'Orme for the chapel at Compiegne in a re-entering 

 angle over one of the town gates, whence its name of " Porte Chapelle," 

 is a somewhat similar feature (Fig. 193). 



FACADES. There is but a step from such large features or groups 

 of features as those just quoted to entire facades composed on classical 

 lines, though belonging to structures of an earlier type such as that of 

 the church at Le Mesnil-Aubry (c. 1580), which may be from the 

 designs of Jean Bullant (Fig. 194). It has two orders of pilasters, and 



189. LYONS: ST NIZIER. WEST DOORWAY. 



