Braine (Aisne), Saint-Yved, plan.
After King.
Braine, Saint-Yved, chevet and south
transept. Photograph: Clarence Ward
Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin
College.
like the three-story elevation with wall passage, suggests influences from the destroyed
Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vincent at Laon. Indeed, the destroyed westwork of Saint-
Yved, now known only through imprecise documents, might have been influenced by the
westworks of Noyon and Laon. For all the local sources, however, the originality of the
designer in his interpretation of the rich regional decorative traditions sets the building
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