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Seven bays of its Romanesque nave remain; the west front, including the carved porches, is Gothic in style. For an account of the Romanesque campaign, and for images of the capitals, see Ricki Diane Weinberger ‘St. Maurice and St. André-le-Bas Dynamics of Artistic Exchange in two Romanesque workshops’ in Gesta Vol. 23 No. 2 (1984) pp. 75 - 86.
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For a series of interior and exterior images see here.
Hope (1835) p.483 described the cathedral of St. Maurice as ‘one of the grandest and simplest and most striking edifices which I have seen.’
Woods (1828) I p.139 commented that the West front and first four arches of the nave were added by Pierre Palmier in 1527 and “present nothing remarkable in the style of architecture” except where the architect tried “to imitate the character of ancient work”.
On the interior Woods argued that “the capitals clearly attest the antiquity of the work”. The style “approaches even more nearly than the Saxon style to the productions of the ancients; nevertheless the arches are pointed”. He questions whether this may be due to restoration “since the points are very obtuse, and there is no central key stone”. However he is reluctant to push back too far the date of construction because “the general disposition is too much like that of a Gothic church”.
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