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| Architect | unknown |
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| Location | Anjou, France map | |
| Date | 1110 to 1119 timeline | |
| Building Type | church, monastery | |
| Construction System | stone bearing masonry | |
| Climate | temperate | |
| Context | urban | |
| Style | Romanesque | |
| Notes | "Fontevraud Abbey" | |
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| Discussion | Fontevrault Abbey Commentary
Fontevraud Abbey is similar in arrangement to Angouleme Cathedral in Aquitaine, with a long aisleless nave and transepts with chapels, together forming a Latin cross in plan. | |
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Sources on Fontevrault Abbey
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. concentricity diagram, p203. transformation diagram, p208. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. photo, p498. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. interior perspective drawing, f270, p140. none. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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