thex tower, two side aisles ending in absidioles, and a semicircular apse. In the XI century the nave was entirely roofed in timber; but in 1552 rib vaults — which, however, have been replaced by modern imitations were erected underneath the tower and in the western bay. Colonnettes are engaged on all four faces of the piers: those facing the nave are continued to form an unmeaning system; those at the ends of the piers carry the second order of the archivolts; those facing the side aisles are continued to form a buttress to the exterior clearstory wall a singular disposition paralleled in the Norman church of Notre Dame-sur-l'Eau of Domfront. The choir is barrel-vaulted; its windows are shafted. With the exception of the tower of the XVII century, the construction is assigned to the last years of the XI century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 177.)

ST.-LÉGER-AUX-BOIS, Oise. Prieuré. A royal charter of 1083 ceded to the abbey of Gérault the revenues, the right of justice, and the usage of the forest of Laigue. Five monks established themselves in this solitude, and built the present priory, which consequently cannot have been erected before 1083, although the style of the architecture shows that the construction must have been finished before the end of the XI century. The nave, five bays long, is flanked by two side aisles; the transepts project; the church terminates to the eastward in three semicircular apses, each preceded by a short rectangular bay. The apses are covered with halfdomes, and the compartments which precede them are barrel-vaulted; the other portions of the church, nave, side aisles, transepts, and crossing, are entirely roofed in timber. A pilaster, which supports nothing, is engaged on the aisle sides of the rectangular piers. The crossing is characterized by four great arches opening on the nave, the choir, and either transept. A window of the façade is shafted, and adorned with a very elementary moulding; the windows of the apse are also similarly moulded. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 226.)

NOËL-ST.-MARTIN, (near Villeneuve-sur-Verberie), Oise. Église consisted originally of a single-aisled nave and an apse. This construction dated from the last half of the XI century. About the middle of the XII century each of the nave walls was pierced with two round arches, and side aisles were added. These side aisles, however, were later destroyed and the arches again walled up. The present crossing, according to M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, was constructed on the site of the primitive apse c. 1135; it is covered with an abnormally stilted rib vault with wall ribs an early example of the latter feature. The north transept, also rib-vaulted, was erected c. 1150, but the existing southern transept is a work of the XVI century. A single quadripartite rib vault erected on a square plan covers the rectangular choir, a construction contemporary with the crossing. The wall rib of this vault is segmental, a form which, as the other arches are all round, results in unduly doming the vault. The façade is a work of the last half of the XI century, and the tower, which rises over the southern transept, is assigned to c. 1080.1 (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 71.)

1 Mr. Moore, Gothic Arch., p. 63, gives a description of this monument differing widely from that of Lefèvre-Pontalis. After referring to it as a very late Romanesque church (i.e., earlier than 1130?), he goes on to speak of the choir vault: "The arches of this vault are all round except the one on the western side of the compartment, which appears to be an alteration of a later

LE TROUQUOY, Somme. Eglise is an excellent and well preserved example of the type of rural church erected in Picardy at the end of the XI century. The monument consists of a single-aisled nave two bays long, and a rectangular choir also of two bays. The choir is covered with a groin vault, constructed as the penetration of two unequal barrel vaults. Broad and salient buttresses reinforce the angles of the choir. The nave is covered with a timber roof of the late Gothic period. (Enlart, Arch. Rom., 166.)

BERNEUIL-SUR-AISNE, Oise. Eglise. Though assigned to the X century by Woillez, this monument, as M. Lefèvre-Pontalis has pointed out, is evidently a work of the last half of the XI century. The edifice consists of a nave three bays long, two side aisles, transepts, and a choir of the XVI century. The second order of the unmoulded archivolts is supported on engaged columns. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 174.)

MAREUIL, Somme. Église. Of the existing structure, the nave, the façade, and a fragment of the choir are Romanesque; but the greater part of the choir was rebuilt in the XV century, and the present crossing, which was originally the fifth bay of the nave, has been much altered. To the westward the nave is prolonged beyond the side asles, so that its unbroken walls buttress the westernmost of the great arches. The nave has a wooden roof; the main arcades are in two orders and shafted. The western portal is adorned with chevrons, arched corbel-tables, arched billet mouldings, and a tympanum sculptured in high relief- features which indicate the style of the last years of the XII century; the rest of the façade, however, appears to be somewhat earlier, and is assigned by M. Enlart to the second quarter of the same century. (Enlart, Arch. Rom., 140.)

OULCHY-LE-CHÂTEAU, Aisne. Notre Dame. According to Carlier this monument was erected on the ruins of a more ancient church by Thibauld I († 1089) who founded the chapter of Oulchy about 1076. However, of the existing edifice only the nave and the tower can be attributed to this period, for the transept and choir show all the characteristics of the style of the last half of the XII century. It is probable that the generous donations (1169) of Henry, Count of Champagne, made it possible for the chapter to partially reconstruct the church at this time. The edifice to-day consists of three aisles, very salient transepts, a rectangular choir, and a tower rising at the end of the south side aisle. The nave is roofed in wood; it is characterized by colonnettes engaged on the ends of the piers to support the extra order of the archivolts, by cubic capitals, by bases supplied with griffes, and by a clearstory rebuilt in the XII century. In the southern side aisle, the ancient barrel vault still exists beneath the tower in the bay preceding the absidiole. The tower consists of three stories of coupled windows in two orders, surmounted by billet mouldings; it is supplied with angle shafts and buttresses of a single ressaut. The exterior of the east end, broken by three round-arched windows surmounted by a quatrefoil, is pleasing and unusual. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 211.)

epoch and belongs to the developed Gothic vault which covers the area over the crossing of the nave and transept." I have not examined this building on the spot, and am somewhat at a loss to know which of two such eminent authorities to disbelieve.

PRESLES, Aisne. Église consists of a nave, two side aisles, slightly projecting transepts, a tower rising over the south transept, and an apse originally flanked by two absidioles. Except for the façade porch an addition of the XIII century the monument is a homogeneous structure of the end of the XI century. The timberroofed nave is divided into four bays by cruciform piers which carry plain archivolts in two orders. About the end of the XII century the existing rib vault was erected over the crossing; the choir, however, retains the XI century barrel vault terminating in a half-dome over the apse. This apse is externally ornamented with triangular arched corbel-tables, ribbon mouldings, etc. (Broche.)

RETHEUIL, Aisne. St. Aubin. The Romanesque church, which terminated in three apses, was much altered in the XVI century, so that the existing edifice consists of a nave, two side aisles, and a rectangular choir. The nave, which is three bays long, and roofed in timber, dates almost wholly from the XVI century, but the southern side aisle has preserved in the bay underneath the tower traces of a barrel vault and of a round-headed window. The tower itself is a monument of the last quarter of the XI century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 219.)

DEUIL, (or Deuil-sous-Montmorency), Seine-et-Oise. St. Eugène consists of two distinct parts: a Romanesque nave of the XI century, and a Gothic choir of the beginning of the XIII century. The nave comprises six bays; the choir, three; the chevet (which is surrounded by an ambulatory with a column on axis), six. A second side aisle was added in the flamboyant period. Colonnettes engaged at the ends of the piers carry the second orders of the archivolts; shafts engaged on the face of the piers rise towards the roof. The monument has badly suffered from modern restorations. (Lambin, 106.)

MONTMILLE, Oise. St. Maxien. This monument, which certainly dates from the XI century (c. 1050), consists of a nave, transepts, and a square east end. The side aisles which originally existed have been destroyed; the piers are square, the archivolts of a single order unadorned. The groin vaults that at present cover the two bays of the choir seem to be later (modern ?1) additions to the original construction. The rest of the church is timber-roofed. Much of the sculpture and ornament of the façade recalls the Basse Oeuvre of Beauvais. (Woillez, M. 1.)

MONTLEVON, Aisne. St. Martin consists of a nave four bays long, two side aisles ending in absidioles, a lateral tower, transepts, and a semicircular apse. The nave and the side aisles were originally roofed in timber, but about the end of the XVI century the existing rib vaults were erected. The archivolts in two orders fall on colonnettes engaged on the rectangular piers. Although the transepts have suffered heavily from restoration, the crossing retains its original barrel vault. The Romanesque portions of the monument may be assigned to the end of the XI century.

ST. BAUDRY, Aisne. Église. In its original form this church consisted of a single-aisled nave and a semicircular apse; but c. 1150 a northern side aisle was added, and the apse replaced by a square choir, while in the XVI century the plan was given an irregular appearance by the addition of a northern chapel. The nave is separated

I know this monument only from Woillez's drawings, from which it is impossible to determine this point.

from the side aisle by three rectangular piers with engaged pilasters supporting the second order of the great pointed archivolts. Both nave and side aisle are roofed in timber. The polygonal choir is covered with a radiating rib vault of six branches; the ancient glass still fills the flamboyant tracery of the windows. Externally the nave is lavishly ornamented with billets and triangular corbel-tables, and is, perhaps, the most richly ornamented of all the Romanesque monuments of the Ile de France. It must consequently date from the last years of the XI century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 223.)

JOUAIGNES, Aisne. St. Pierre. The nave, which is assigned by M. LefèvrePontalis to the end of the XI century, was originally three bays long, was flanked by two side aisles, and was roofed in timber. The archivolts were in two orders, of which the inner was carried on a colonnette engaged in the piers. These dispositions are preserved intact only in last bay of the north side; on the south side the original side aisle was destroyed and the arches walled up, although the aisle has been again rebuilt in modern times. The crossing was vaulted c. 1130; the south transept is of the last half of the XII century; the north transept, like the polygonal choir (which replaces the Romanesque apse), dates only from the XIII century. The lower story of the tower is assigned to c. 1130, but the upper story is Gothic in style. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 185.)

LA CROIX, Aisne. Église consists at present of a nave, a single side aisle, and a square choir; but in the XI century there were two side aisles ending in absidioles and a semicircular apse preceded by a transept. In the XII century a tower was added flanking the apse, and the existing choir was erected in the early Gothic period. The wooden-roofed nave is three bays long; its round arcades of two orders are supported on piers. These piers are flat on the side of the nave, except that in the pier between the second and third bay there is engaged a pilaster, which suggests a buttress rather than a system. On the other three sides are engaged colonnettes, supporting the beams of the aisle roof, or the second order of the archivolts. This nave is assigned by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis to the last quarter of the XI century. The crossing, though bounded by arches, is not vaulted; the elegant choir of the XIII century, however, is vaulted throughout. The façade is modern; the central tower dates from the second quarter of the XII century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 182.)

BITRY, Oise. Église of the XI century was altered at the end of the XII century and rebuilt almost entirely in the late flamboyant period. The edifice consists of a nave, a single side aisle which is continued to flank the square bay of the choir, - and a polygonal apse. The nave, three bays long, is a work of the XVI century; the multiple ribs of the vaults and the archivolts are received on monocylindrical piers without capitals. Also of the XVI century is the vault of the rectangular portion of the choir, but beneath the central tower a barrel vault of the XI century, buttressed by two engaged columns, is still extant. The tower and spire must date from the XII century. Angle turrets were projected but never executed. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 125.)

BREUIL-LE-VERT, Oise. Église is known to have been founded c. 1100 by Hugh, Count of Champagne, for the charter (1145) of his son confirming this gift

is yet extant. Since this confirmation was made expressly in honor of the consecration of the church, that event must have taken place about 1145. No part of the existing edifice, however, can be assigned to this date, and it is necessary to suppose that all the portions erected c. 1145 were later rebuilt. The north arcade seems to be the oldest part of the present structure; the archivolts in two orders, the cruciform piers, the crude capitals, indicate the style of the third quarter of the XI century. The remainder of the edifice must be at least a hundred years later, for the windows are all pointed, and, while there is no true tracery, several of the lancets are grouped together under a single relieving arch. A fine central tower lends distinction to the exterior of this interesting church. (Woillez; Johnson.)

BRESLES, Oise. Eglise. This single-aisled country church dating perhaps from the middle of the XI century, is roofed in timber. The archivolts have square profiles, and there is very little ornament of any kind, except for the Greek cross in the gable, which recalls the Basse Oeuvre of Beauvais. The most interesting part of the monument is the central tower of c. 1110, which consists of two stories of blind arcades and grouped windows - the tympanums of the latter pierced with bull's eyes. (Woillez.)

ST.-THIBAUD-DE-BAZOCHES, Aisne. Prieuré. A charter, which must be earlier than 1080, mentions that this priory had been built a few years previously; it is evident from the style, however, that the existing edifice can not be earlier than c. 1075. This most important monument was unfortunately in large part destroyed in 1842; there survive only three piers of the nave and a part of the transept, but the foundations have been excavated, so that the original dispositions can be made out. The church consisted of a nave, six bays long, ending to the westward in an exterior narthex-tower; of two side aisles; of transepts deeply projecting; and of three semicircular eastern apses. The apses were covered with half-domes; the transepts and nave were roofed in timber; and the narthex and side aisles were, in all probability, groin-vaulted with transverse ribs, although the remains are not sufficient to make this absolutely certain. Four colonnettes were engaged on each pier: the two on the ends doubtless served to support the second orders of the archivolts, the one towards the aisle probably supported the transverse arch of the groin vault, and that facing the nave was continued to the roof as a system, although the nave was not vaulted. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. I, 228.)

FILAIN, Aisne. Ste. Berthe. This chapel, on the strength of its crude capitals and triangular decoration, has often been assigned to the Carolingian era. M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, however, has shown that it must belong to the XI century, though not improbably to the first half. The edifice consists of a rectangular nave and a rectangular choir, the latter divided into two transverse sections by an arcade of three arches.

ST.-REMI-L'ABBAYE, Oise. Abbaye. The primitive structure consisted of a wooden-roofed nave, two side aisles, transepts, and a semicircular apse; but only the nave, the façade, and the side aisles remain, and the latter have been completely rebuilt. The piers are square, the archivolts of single order; the whole interior, indeed, in its dearth of ornament recalls the Basse Oeuvre of Beauvais. The