Illustration: THE SALLE DU TAU IN 1918 Behind the ruined Hall are seen the Southern Transept andChevet of the Cathedral.
A plain stone gallery with blind arcading, which formerly ran round the cheveton a level with the springing of the roof, was replaced by Viollet-le-Duc, with pierced battlemented arcading.
Of the ancient building erected by the successors of St. Nicaise down to the 13th century, there remained only the graceful two-storied chapel, doubtless contemporary with the chevet of the Cathedral.
This interesting church is largely Romanesque in style (tower, chevetand nave).
The chevet and the transept-crossing are early 13th century, while the transept ends probably date from the middle of 12th century.
But the builders do not seem to have realized immediately the aesthetic advantage in so planning their churches that such chevet vaults should come next to a six-part vault.
Certain of these domed up chevets may also be attributed to the type of nave vault developed in the locality in which they are found, as, for example, the chevet of Angers cathedral (Fig.
But much more important than these smaller chevet vaults, are those of a number of large churches, also belonging to the second quarter of the twelfth century.
That they may, however, have been of influence in the development of the true chevet will be later suggested.
A chevet with the unusual number of eleven cells is to be seen in the church of La Chapelle-sur-Crécy (thirteenth century).
The chevet built upon these radiants differs, however, from those in Paris and at Saint Germer in having a decidedly domed up character.
Indeed, it has been questioned as to whether the choir and chevetof Notre Dame de Paris is not the most beautiful extant.
The grouping of the chevet of the choir with the low roofs of the town lying at its base, and the gardens of the ducal chateau in the immediate foreground, forms an unusually varied combination of the picturesque.
The chevet of the choir extends, as it were, well into the nave, there being no transepts.
In the latter church is a French chevet with seven apsidal chapels.
The altar spaces provided by the radiating chapels of the French chevet were in England obtained by returning the aisles across the square east-end of the choir, or by an eastern transept.
In the cathedrals of Acerenza, Aversa and Venosa, the French chevet was introduced towards the end of the 12th century.
I wished to have two bucks roasted whole; Chevet undertook to get them roasted.
I wanted an enormous fish: for three bucks, Chevet undertook to provide me with a salmon weighing thirty pounds, or a sturgeon weighing fifty.
The chevet is fine, but with nothing in any way unusual in its design; the upper part of the buttresses is destroyed, and the walls finish without parapet or roof, so as to make the church look somewhat like a roofless ruin.
The plan of the chevet is probably old, but all its details, save those of the piers between the chapels, have been modernized.
That without comparison the plan of three naves is more compatible and more proportioned to the Chevet of the church than that of one nave.
The same alteration of plan occurs in the chevet of Amiens, a work which was in progress about A.
The transepts probably had chapels on the east, of which one still remains in the north transept; but this is the only original chapel, none of those round the chevet having been spared.
The chapels of the chevet were very small, and almost contained within the semi-circle which forms its outline.
Chapter was held, at which it was resolved to rebuild the head or chevet of the church with nine chapels,[316] for which, in A.
The seventh reason which they give is, that the Chevet of the church would cover the door of the chapel of the Archbishop and the library in order to join them.
In both these churches the arrangement of the ground-plan of the chevet is so nearly similar as to allow of their being classed together as at any rate works of the same style, if they are not indeed both works of the same school.
That without comparison the plan of three naves, in the form which has just been explained, is more compatible and more proportioned to the Chevet of the church than the plan of one nave.
The plan of the chevet is very good; it presents the French arrangement of an aisle and chapels round the apse in place of the common Spanish triapsidal plan; but the detail is all completely Catalan.
Chevet managed to provide another banquet within three quarters of an hour, which, with the one that had been spoiled, was put in the bill.
So said madame; and sick at last of always hearing the same complaints, he decided to let Chevet provide.
Observe the graceful leaden angel, holding a cross, on the summit of the chevet or round apse.
The rose-windows, four in number, are filled with glass of the thirteenth century, and the tall windows of the chevet and clerestory contain a many colored mosaic of a similar sort.
In Rouen cathedral, east of the transept aisles, there are apsidal chapels, which with the three chapels in the chevet make up the usual number.
During the last quarter of the XII century, the chevetwas built, as were the two towers placed beside the apse, an arrangement derived from Rhenish churches.
The nave and aisles are of the first half of the XI century, the chevet and transept of the early XII, as is the cloister, which once had a second story.
The long prospect of nave and choir ends with a sort of graceful smallness in a chevet of seven closely packed, narrow bays.
Beyond thechevet stood a tower of which the actual one is a replica.
The Rayonnant chevet of Bordeaux Cathedral and its transept, two of whose towers are spire-crowned, compose an effective architectural group, with a detached campanile in the gardens.
The semicircular chevet is boxed in a square ambulatory on which open square eastern chapels.
Behind the Gothic Town Hall is the now unused chapel of St. Jean, a small example of the Third Period of Angevin architecture, when ribs branched considerably; in the square chevet they ramify to the number of twenty.
Then it was that the XI-century Romanesque chevetof Le Mans Cathedral was replaced by the present stupendous Gothic choir.
The curve of the sanctuary as seen from the west end of the nave is one of the splendors of the monument, and no chevetever built surpassed it.
Now the chevet of Canterbury has strong analogies with that of Sens.
Its chevet and transept are the oldest parts, and then rose the nave, covered with First-Period Angevin vaults (c.
Its central and west towers, its nave, and chevet belong to the second half of the XII century, the transept is earlier; there was a reconstruction of the nave after 1559.
Slender pillars divide that wide chevet into three aisles of equal height, composing one of the most graceful specimens of the school's Third Period.
Such, in short, are the characteristics of the chevet of the Cathedral of Avila, constructed in an age when its builders must have worked in a spirit of hardy vigor with the trowel in one hand and the sword in the other.
The chevet or Capilla Mayor, which at first very properly contained the choir, is surrounded by a double ambulatory, outside of which the thick walls are pierced by nine apsidal chapels.
The chevet is the keynote of the plan, and the solution of the problem, how to vault the different compartments lying between the three concentric circular terminations beyond the choir.
The choir consists of one bay, and the chevet formed by an apse to the choir of five bays.
The chevet is clear in arrangement and noble in expression.
The polygonal chevet with its radial chapels is but rarely seen; +S.
They generally superseded the transept-chapels of earlier churches, and added greatly to the beauty of the interior perspective, especially when the encircling aisles of the chevetwere doubled.
The introduction of French ideas in the thirteenth century led to the adoption in a number of cases of the chevet with a single ambulatory and a series of radiating apsidal chapels.
Without even changing his dress, the young man went straight to the Rue de Chevet Saint-Laudry.
When Ernanton mentioned the letter: "You have it, monsieur?
All was preparing for the king's going out, and M.
Ernanton followed De Loignac to the courtyard of the Louvre.
Illustration: +The Chevet of the church before the war.
The chevet dated from the 14th century, the rest of the building being early 16th century.
Chevet stared into the Governor's dark face, scarce able to comprehend, his brain dazed from heavy drinking.
Chevet loaned it me, and Cassion knows I would kill him if he ventured insult.
He had been talking for an hour with Chevet in the room below; I could hear the rattle of glasses, as though they drank, and the unpleasant arrogance of his voice, although no words reached me clearly.
It was to further this scheme that he induced Chevet to announce our engagement, and drive me to consent.
Chevet stood silent, his mouth agape, struggling to follow my swift speech.
Twas of no interest to me unless my uncle joined in the enterprise, yet I was kind enough, for he brought with him word of the governor's ball at Quebec, and had won the pledge of Chevet to take me there with him.
This must have been the way it happened--Chevet had made some bitter enemy, for he was ever prodigal of angry word and blow, and the fellow had followed him through the night to strike him down from behind.
There was no word spoken other than that of mere friendship, nor did I know then that Chevet had arranged my marriage to the Commissaire.
Cassion laughed, chucking the gloomy-faced Chevet in the side, as though he would give point to a good joke.
My own mate for one--Georges Descartes; he swore to seeing De Artigny follow Chevet from the boats, and that was not true, for we were together all that day.
The story of your midnight visit to the Mission garden at St. Ignace, the night Hugo Chevet was killed.
Three shells fell on the cathedral, striking the stone gallery and roof of the north transept; the chevet was subjected to similar injury, and the glass of the choir chapel windows was destroyed.
The angle of the south transept and the chevet was particularly hurt on the date last named.
Besides the Hôtel de la Division is the chevet of St. Michel Church, looking on to the square of that name.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chevet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
