passages of a large room with three arcades surmounted by an unusual clerestory.
Originally a rectangular room, the nave was subdivided in the 13th century into three
spaces; the division consists of a double series of arcades in broken arches on rectangular
pillars.
E.Kay Harris
Crozet, René. “La restauration de l’église de Saint-Généroux.” Bulletin de la Société Historique et
Scientifique des DeuxSèvres 40(1961).
SAINT-GENIS-DES-FONTAINES
. The small church of Saint-Genis (Pyrénées-Orientales) is noted for its carved marble
lintel above the entrance. The rectangular slab, dated
Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines (Pyrénées-
Orientales), lintel of west door.
Photograph courtesy of Whitney
S.Stoddard.
1020–21 by inscription, depicts Christ in a mandorla supported by two angels with three
Apostles standing under horseshoe arches to each side. Decorative details and the
apocalyptic subject suggest Spanish influence. The flat, linear carving and compressed
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