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CH.xxm] FRANCE AUVERGNE 137group in date, and has not only suffered a good deal of Briouderenovation in modern times like the rest, but was also agood deal pulled about in the I4th century, when the navewas ceiled with rib and panel vaulting. Two bays ofthe nave next the crossing remain in their original state ;one has three blank arches where the triforium shouldbe, and a circle above ;and if this is itoriginal wouldhave prevented a barrel vault. The other bays have aclerestory into which Gothic traceries are inserted. Thecentral tower over the crossing rests on four pointedarches, and isopen as a lantern to the floor. Thetransepts do not outrun the aisles, and are vaulted intwo heights, forming a gallery, with a barrel vault aboveand a cross-groined vault below constructed in ashlar.There is a western tower as at Issoire, and a porch andgalleryat the west end. On the south side is a fineporch of simple design.The capitals are mostly Corinthian izing, but someare storied, and some of the pilasters are fluted, which isnot common in Auvergne. The advanced style of thischurch appears in the windows, which instead of theplain round-headed openings of Clermont have two ordersof shafts and arches.The west front is very plain and simple, and this is simplicitycharacteristic of all these Auvergnat churches, in whichthe attention of the architect seems to have been chieflyfa9adebestowed on the eastern end with its chapels,centraltower.and theThe little church of CHAMALI&RES, in a village now Chamajoinedby lines of houses to Clermont, has escaped restoration,but is in a sadly dilapidated condition, and agood deal hidden by houses built upit.against It hasan ambulatory and four apsidal chapels, with an east