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 376 COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE. S. Stephen, Westminster (No. 119 l), since destroyed for the rebuilding of Westminster Palace. It has a richly vaulted crypt, and such characteristic French features as the apsidal termination and the high stone-vaulted roof. Among later examples in the north of France, mostly in the Flamboyant style, are : — S. Ouen, Rouen (1318-1515), the choir (1318-1339) being contemporary with that of Cologne, S. Maclou, Rouen (1432- 1500), probably the richest Flamboyant example in France, S. Jacques, Dieppe (1350-1440), and S. Wulfrand, Abbe- ville (1488-1534). In the south of France many buildings were erected during the Middle Ages, differing from these northern cathedrals in plan and design owing to the proximity of Roman buildings. Albi Cathedral (1282-1512), a fortress church, consists of a large impressive vaulted hall with an apsidal end, and having a series of flanking chapels separated by internal buttresses. It possesses an unrivalled fifteenth century rood screen. Beauvais Cathedral was originally built 1225-1272, but was partly reconstructed 1 337-1 347, the transepts being added in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This building was never com- pleted beyond the choir and cJievet and the transepts. It has the highest nave vault in France, being 160 feet, and has a nave width of 47 feet from centre to centre of piers. The Church of the Cordeliers, Toulouse {fourteenth century), which was partially destroyed in 1871, was another example of this type, and has some similarity in plan with that of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. S. Sernin, Toulouse, commenced in 1096 (referred to on page 248), is a five-aisled example, the western portion and many- storied octagonal tower belonging to this period. SECULAR ARCHITECTURE. France is especially rich in domestic architecture, and through- out the country are to be found castles, town halls, hospitals, houses, barns, farmhouses, granaries, and other buildings, in which the principles of the Gothic style can be studied. The House of Jacques Coeur, Bourges (1443), is a fine example of the house of a great merchant prince of the period. It is partly built on the town ramparts and has a central courtyard (No. 163), possessing a fine staircase tower. The Palais de Justice, Rouen (1449-1508) (No. 164), is an exceedingly rich specimen of French municipal architecture. The Chateau de Pierrefonds, restored by 'iollet-le-Duc, Mont S.Michel (Normandy), and the Chateau de Blois (east wing) (1498-1515J, are examples of military architecture.