Moissac Abbey

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cid_aj2444_b.150.jpg Moissac Abbey
Designer unknown
Location Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Date circa 650 to 850
Building Type religious, abbey
Climate temperate
Context  
Architectural Style Romanesque
Street Address
Notes "Church of Saint-Pierre". Columns articulate edge of cloister. Later additions in Gothic.
At Great Buildings http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Moissac_Abbey.html

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Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. perspective drawing of cloister, p32.

Meyer Schapiro. The Romanesque Sculpture of Moissac. New York: George Braziller, 1985. ISBN 0-8076-1119-0. LC 84-28546. NB551.M58S33 1985. site plan drawing, f7, p2. exterior photo of the Cloister, f8, p4-5.

External Links

Pauline Caldwell's France — photos and disccussion

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