THE ROMANESQUE STYLE C. IOOO~£. I2OO

Abbot Majeul's rebuilding dedi-
cated in 981 (figs. IT and 12).
The functional reason for both
was the growing worship of
saints, with its ensuing need for
more altars. To find accom-
modation for them, chapels in
the eastern parts, i.e. the parts
reserved for the clergy, were
added to the original one centre
chapel or apse* One can imagine
how crudely Anglo-Saxon or
Asturian architects would have
added them. The architect of the
new age groups them into one
coherent unified entity, either by
laying an ambulatory round the
apse and adding radiating chapels,
or by running die aisles on past
the transepts, finishing them in
small apses parallel or nearly
parallel with the main apse and,
in addition, placing one, two or
even three apses along the cast wall of each transept.

Almost exactly at the time when the French began to evolve
these new schemes, in Saxony, the centre province of Otto's empire,
just north of the Harz mountains, another and even more thorough

xi. TOURS: ST. MARTIN'S. THB THICK

BLACK JUNES ARE THE WALLS OF THE

CHURCH BEGUN SHORTLY AFTER 997,

DEDICATIONS IN IOI4 AND I02O.

12. CLUNY: ABBEY CHURCH, AS BEGUN C. 960 AND DEDICATED IN 98 X. (BLACK—-EXISTING
FOUNDATIONS; OUTLINED—HYPOTHETICAL,)
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