pletion of the choir, has never been finished. The façade is of the XIII century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 111.)

JUZIERS, Seine-et-Oise. Église consists of a nave, two side aisles, transepts, a choir, and a semicircular apse. A double row of arcades are carried completely around the apse so as to produce the effect of an ambulatory - a disposition analogous to the choir of Ste. Trinité of Caen and other Norman buildings. This portion of the edifice which must date from the last quarter of the XII century - is covered with a radiating rib vault. The wall ribs and the windows are semicircular, but the arcades are pointed. The wooden-roofed nave is characterized by round arches, rectangular piers, and severely simple square profiles; it may be assigned to the first years of the XII, or even the end of the XI century. (Arch. de la Com. des Mon. Hist. I, 12.)

GENOUILLY, Cher. Église, one of the most interesting rural churches in the département of Cher, is a fine example of the transition in Berry. The original edifice consisted of a semicircular apse, a choir almost square, a wooden-roofed nave of a single aisle, a western narthex tower, and two chapels added in the XVI century. The apse vault is supported by three radiating ribs, but the crowns of the vault compartments fall towards the outer edge. The choir is covered with a highly domed rib vault. (De Kersers IV, 159.)

CAUFFRY, Oise. Eglise. The nave may be assigned to the XI century, the tower and the choir to c. 1145; the single side aisle is a comparatively modern addition. The XII century edifice consisted of a single-aisled nave, a central tower, and a rectangular choir two bays long. The nave is roofed in wood; the choir is covered with pointed rib vaulting. Externally, the choir and tower are ornamented with arched corbel-tables; the tower windows are in several orders, shafted and richly moulded; the buttresses are broken by ressauts. (Woillez; Johnson.)

LAFFAUX, Aisne. Notre Dame. The original edifice consisted of a nave, two side aisles, a central tower, and a semicircular apse. The northern transept was added in the XIII century, the southern, in the XVI century. The wooden-roofed nave of c. 1140 is four bays long, and is characterized by pointed arcades whose extra orders are supported on columns engaged on the piers. Also of c. 1140 is the highly domed rib vault that rises over the crossing; this vault is supplied with wall ribs and pointed arches. The transepts are both vaulted. A ribbed half-dome, dating from c. 1150, surmounts the apse, and is buttressed externally by groups of shafts with capitals. The central tower of about the same time has no buttresses, but its angles are shafted, and its windows adorned with elaborate projecting mouldings. This church is one of the best examples of the rural architecture of the XII century in the Soissonnais. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 56.)

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CERNY-EN-LAONNAIS, Aisne. Eglise, has been assigned to the VI century by Fleury and to the first years of the XII century by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, though may well be doubted if the oldest portions be not as old as the XI century. The edifice consisted of a nave, two side aisles, and three apses one of which has been destroyed. The apses are covered with half-domes, the choir with a barrel vault; but the interest of this church centers chiefly in the transverse arches which span the

nave and side aisles and support the timber roof. Externally the structure is characterized by a central western tower, a curious western narthex occupying the first bay of the nave, and very rough masonry. (Fleury II, 29.)

CATENOY, Oise. Abbaye. The central tower which is probably the oldest part of the existing edifice may be assigned to c. 1100. About 1160 the remainder of the church was entirely rebuilt. This structure of the second half of the XII century consisted of a single-aisled nave, transepts, and a rectangular choir; the piers of the central tower were placed inside of the nave walls, leaving a passage from the have directly to the transepts. This disposition, unique in the Ile de France, may be paralleled in Normandy and Berry. In the XIII century a single side aisle was added. The church to-day is of interest chiefly for the barrel and rib vaults which surmount the crossing and choir respectively - the transepts and nave are roofed in timber and for the main portal richly decorated in six orders. (Woillez.)

AZY-BONNEIL, Aisne. Église, which originally consisted of a nave, two side aisles, and a rectangular choir surmounted by a tower, was twice rebuilt once at the end of the XII century and again in the Gothic period. The existing nave, which dates entirely from the first years of the XIII century, is roofed in wood; the archivolts of the four great pointed arches of each side are received on crocketed capitals; each pier is surrounded by six engaged colonnettes; round-headed windows are pierced in the clearstory on the axis of each pier. The aisles and their plaster vaults have been remade in modern times. Beneath the tower is a rib vault, probably built c. 1170 to replace the original barrel vault. About 1175 the old square east end was replaced by a polygonal apse. The vault of this apse is Gothic in character, but has no wall ribs; the windows are round-headed. In 1250 the second bay of the choir was made the center of a new transept. The façade contains some débris notably the portals of an earlier building of the first quarter of the XII century, to which the tower (c. 1115) also belonged. (Lefèvre-Pontalis II, 119.)

JUVIGNY, Aisne. Église consists of a nave, two side aisles, a broad transept later than the rest of the construction, and a semicircular apse. The nave, assigned to c. 1110 by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, is four bays long and covered with a wooden ceiling; the rectangular piers support round arches; the clearstory windows have been walled up. The side aisles which are not vaulted have been reconstructed in modern times. A semicircular arch of triumph in two orders separates the groin-vaulted crossing which is part of the primitive construction - from the nave. This crossing was merely a bay of the choir until about 1210, when the existing rib-vaulted transepts were added. The apse covered with a half-dome and the octagonal central tower are contemporary with the rest of the church. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 52.)

CHAVIGNY, Aisne. Église consists of a nave, very salient transepts, a central tower, and a semicircular apse. The nave, with wooden ceiling, has been almost entirely rebuilt in modern times; the side aisles which were built to flank it in the XIII century have been suppressed. The half-domed apse which is assigned to c. 1110 by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis is reinforced externally by four buttresses surmounted by an engaged half-column without capital. Probably the well-preserved façade and the

tower are contemporary, but the vault of the crossing was remade in the XIII century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 34.)

COULOGNES, Aisne. Église consists of a nave four bays long, two side aisles, transepts, a large choir, and a polygonal apse rebuilt in the XVI century. The nave, erected in the second quarter of the XII century, was originally supplied with a wooden ceiling, but this was replaced c. 1170 by the existing rib vaults, which are supported on a logical and continuous system of five shafts. The ancient piers consisted of a central core flanked by three shallow pilasters. Towards the nave the pier was flat; the pilaster facing the aisle supported an isolated transverse arch. The aisle vaults were erected at the same time as those of the nave, but the vaults of the transepts are modern. As for the transepts themselves, they are the oldest part of the church and may be assigned to c. 1130. A pointed barrel vault covers the crossing. The exterior is notable for the façade of c. 1135, and for the absence of flying buttresses an absence the more remarkable that the clearstory is rather high. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 137.)

BUSSAIRES, Aisne. Église consists of a nave, two side aisles, a choir, and a semicircular apse. The nave, three bays long, is covered with a wooden ceiling, and is characterized by shafts added to the piers in the XVI century with the idea of constructing vaults, which, however, have never been erected; by archivolts in two orders; and by cruciform piers. This nave, as well as its choir, is assigned to c. 1160 by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis. The pilasters engaged on the side of the piers facing the side aisles fulfil the function of true buttresses and end in a splayed surface. The walls of the aisles have been rebuilt in modern times. A rib vault with a complete set of ribs surmounts the choir; the apse is supplied with a true Gothic radiating vault. Externally, the great round-arched portal must date from the earliest years of the XII century; the tower is modern. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 131.)

BEAUFORT-EN-SANTERRE. Somme. Église, erected in the XII, was largely reconstructed at the end of the XVI century. It consisted originally of a square choir of a single bay, transepts, and a nave four bays long, but two side aisles and a southwestern tower were added in the flamboyant period. The crossing and choir were the only portions of the edifice supplied with vaults; they are ornamented externally with arched corbel-tables and rich mouldings of advanced character. The nave has no system; the archivolts are in two orders; the clearstory windows are round-headed. This part of the edifice is assigned by M. Enlart to the second half of the XII century, and the western portal to 1170–90. (Enlart, L'Arch. Rom., 66.)

VILLERS-ST.-PAUL, Oise. Abbaye. The most interesting portion of this church, the nave, dates from the XII century. It was originally spanned by three transverse arches, buttressed externally, and one of these still survives. This nave is further characterized by a wooden roof, pointed archivolts in two unmoulded orders of which the lower is supported on colonnettes engaged on the piers, and roundheaded clearstory windows. The exterior is ornamented with arched corbel-tables, frets, and chevrons; the west portal is very rich, the façade is pierced by pointed lancets. The transepts and tower date from the XIII century, and the transept windows are filled with fine plate tracery. (Woillez V, 1; Johnson.)

FONTENOY, Aisne. St. Remi consists of a nave, two side aisles which are continued to flank the choir, a lateral tower erected subsequently to the original construction, a choir, and a semicircular apse. The nave covered with a wooden ceiling is four bays long, and is assigned by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis to c. 1110; the great arches of the main arcade are semicircular and rest on rectangular piers. The eastern bay of the side aisle, reconstructed about 1140 when the lower portions of the tower 1 were built, is covered with a rib vault. A barrel vault terminating in the half-dome of the apse surmounts the choir. The western portal is contemporary with the nave. The ornament of this church is peculiar, especially the double chevrons of the triumphal arch and the exterior string-courses. (Lefèvre-Pontalis II, 49.)

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BÉTHISY-ST.-MARTIN, Oise. Église. (Ill. 187.) This edifice of the XII century, altered in the XIII, XIV, and XV centuries, consists of a nave, two side aisles, which are prolonged to flank the choir, a lateral tower, and a rectangular choir. In the XII century the side aisles did not extend farther than the first bay of the choir, which was barrel-vaulted the existing rib vaults were erected c. 1150- and followed by a semicircular apse. The timber-roofed nave, four bays long, dates from the first third of the XIII century, and is characterized by massive piers on each of which is engaged a single pilaster facing the side aisle, by clearstory windows placed on the axis of the piers, and by arcades some of whose arches are pointed, some round-headed. The north side aisle was reconstructed in the XIV century; its vaults were added in the flamboyant period. From the pilasters engaged on the walls and on the piers it is evident that it was the intention of the builders to erect isolated transverse arches spanning the side aisles. The east end of the southern side aisle has preserved a barrel vault. The charming tower with its stone spire and angle turrets dates from the second quarter of the XII century. (Lefèvre-Pontalis II, 15.)

BEAUVAL, Somme. Église consisted originally of a timber-roofed nave, two side aisles also roofed in wood, and a rectangular rib-vaulted choir without side aisles; but a sort of transept was added in the XVII century. It is possible to distinguish two different eras of construction in the nave: the one, of the commencement of the XIII century, is contemporary with the choir, the other is older, but not earlier than the last quarter of the XII century. The archivolts in two orders are supported on colonnettes engaged in the great rectangular piers; the clearstory windows, now walled up, were round-headed. The southwest tower is of the XVII century. (Durand.)

MOGNEVILLE, Oise. Église. Of this ancient edifice there survive two bays of the nave, the transepts altered in the XIII century, the choir, and the tower. The buttresses of the latter were added at the end of the XII century, doubtless to counteract some movement which had appeared in the masonry. This tower with its spire, dormers, and angle turrets is a masterpiece of design, and may be assigned to c. 1175; it is decorated with shafted angles, double arched-corbel tables, and pointed arches enclosing horseshoe windows. (Woillez; Arch. de la Com. des Mon. Hist. I. 30.)

GLENNES, Aisne. St. Georges consists of a narthex, a timber-roofed nave, two side aisles, transepts, a rib-vaulted choir, and a semicircular apse. The narthex which 1 The upper portions of the tower were finished only in the XIII century.

forms a separate edifice higher than the nave is assigned by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis to c. 1200, with the exception of the central vault which was rebuilt in the XVI century. The nave which is assigned to c. 1160 is five bays long; it is characterized by archivolts in two orders, rectangular piers with engaged shafts, pointed arcades, and roundheaded windows. Little interest attaches to the side aisles which have been almost entirely rebuilt in the XVI century and in modern times. The crossing is contemporary with the nave, but the transepts, covered with rib. vaults furnished with semicircular wall ribs, were added c. 1170. The choir, however, is part of the original construction, as is the apse with its radiating rib vault of the Noyon type without wall ribs. Externally, the church is notable for the central tower of c. 1170 characterized by pointed arches in the upper story, fine mouldings, and shafted buttresses. Altogether this interesting monument is one of the most important rural edifices of the département of Aisne. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. II, 155.)

ANGY, Oise. Église of the second half of the XII century, consisted originally of a single-aisled nave roofed in wood, rib-vaulted transepts, and a five-sided apse covered with a radiating rib vault. To this was added, but still in the XII century, a northern side aisle. The transepts are not symmetrical in plan, and the southern is also somewhat higher than the northern. Externally the buttresses of the apse are very salient and in many ressauts; the windows are round-arched; the central tower is ornamented with arched corbel-tables; and the belfry windows are filled with plate tracery. (Woillez; Johnson.)

CERSEUIL, Aisne. St. Pierre consists of a single-aisled nave (the side aisles which formerly existed have been torn down), transepts, a central tower, and a square choir. With the exception of the nave the entire edifice was rebuilt in the XIII century, and it is probable that the church of the XII century had no transept. The nave, three bays long and covered with a wooden ceiling, is characterized by rectangular piers, unmoulded archivolts of a single order, and small unornamented clearstory windows. Its most interesting feature, however, is the pointed arch which occurs in the west portal - an unusually early example of such a construction, for this part of the edifice must date, according to M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, from c. 1125. The remainder of the edifice is of little interest, except for the tower assigned to c. 1210. (Lefèvre-Pontalis, Arch. Rel. III, 33.)

CIRY, Aisne. Église consists of a nave, two side aisles, a choir, a three-sided apse, and a large square chapel recently erected. The nave, assigned to c. 1110 by M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, is covered with a modern plaster vault, replacing the ancient timber roof; the semicircular arches of the main arcade are supported by rectangular piers. The side aisles, reconstructed in modern times, were covered with a wooden roof in the XII century. A round triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir. This choir is assigned to c. 1130, and is covered with a groin vault furnished with two wall ribs. The three-sided apse, the oldest example of a polygonal east end in the Soissonnais, is surmounted by a half-dome divided by two groins, a construction which forms, in fact, a segmental cloistered vault. Although the portal has clearly been rebuilt, the façade, on the whole, seems contemporary with the nave. The tower